Jake McCandless

{{Infobox college coach

| name = Jake McCandless

| image =

| alt =

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| birth_date = {{Circa|1930}}

| birth_place =

| death_date = {{Death date|2007|11|5}} (aged 77)

| death_place = Ocala, Florida, U.S.

| alma_mater =

| player_sport1 = Football

| player_years2 = 1948–1950

| player_team2 = Princeton

| player_positions =

| coach_sport1 = Football

| coach_years2 = 1951–1953

| coach_team2 = St. Mark's School (MA)

| coach_years3 = 1954–1957

| coach_team3 = Kent School (CT)

| coach_years4 = 1958–1968

| coach_team4 = Princeton (assistant)

| coach_years5 = 1969–1972

| coach_team5 = Princeton

| coach_sport6 = Basketball

| coach_years7 = 1951–1954

| coach_team7 = St. Mark's School (MA)

| coach_years8 = 1954–1958

| coach_team8 = Kent School (CT)

| coach_years9 = 1961–1962

| coach_team9 = Princeton

| overall_record = 18–17–1 (college football)
22–16 (college basketball)

| bowl_record =

| tournament_record = Basketball
1–2 (NCAA)

| championships = Football
1 Ivy (1969)
Basketball
1 Ivy (1961)

| awards =

| coaching_records =

}}

Joey Leigh "Jake" McCandless ({{Circa|1930}} – November 5, 2007) was an American football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at Princeton University from 1969 to 1972, compiling a record of 18–17–1. McCandless also served as acting head basketball coach for the final 15 games of the 1960–61 season, replacing an ailing Franklin Cappon, who suffered a heart attack in January 1961. When Cappon died in November of that year, McCandless was named his successor and led the Princeton team for the 1961–62 season.{{cite news |author= |title=Princeton Hires Coach |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/10171010/the_corpus_christi_callertimes/ |newspaper=Corpus Christi Caller-Times |location=Corpus Christi, Texas |agency=Associated Press |date=December 2, 1961 |page=9 |access-date=April 9, 2017 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}

A native of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, McCandless graduated from Beaver Falls High School in 1947. He attended Princeton, where he played college football before graduating in 1951. He began his coaching career at St. Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts and Kent School in Kent, Connecticut. He returned in Princeton in 1958 as an assistant football coach.{{cite news |author= |title=Princeton names Jake McCandless |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/10143074/the_pocono_record/ |newspaper=Pocono Record |location=Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania |agency=United Press International |date=January 31, 1969 |page=13 |access-date=April 8, 2017 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} McCandless died at the age of 77, at his home in Ocala, Florida, on November 5, 2007.{{cite news |author= |title=Obituaries |url=http://www.towntopics.com/nov1407/obits.html |newspaper=Town Topics |location=Princeton, New Jersey |date=November 14, 2007 |access-date=April 9, 2017 }}

Head coaching record

=College football=

{{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }}

{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = Princeton Tigers

| conf = Ivy League

| startyear = 1969

| endyear = 1972

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = conference

| year = 1969

| name = Princeton

| overall = 6–3

| conference = 6–1

| confstanding = T–1st

| bowlname =

| bowloutcome =

| bcsbowl =

| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1970

| name = Princeton

| overall = 5–4

| conference = 3–4

| confstanding = 5th

| bowlname =

| bowloutcome =

| bcsbowl =

| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1971

| name = Princeton

| overall = 4–5

| conference = 3–4

| confstanding = T–5th

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| bowloutcome =

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| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| year = 1972

| name = Princeton

| overall = 3–5–1

| conference = 2–4–1

| confstanding = T–6th

| bowlname =

| bowloutcome =

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| ranking = no

| ranking2 = no

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = Princeton

| overall = 18–17–1

| confrecord = 14–13–1

}}

{{CFB Yearly Record End

| overall = 18–17–1

| bowls = no

| poll = no

| polltype =

}}

=College basketball=

{{CBB Yearly Record Start | type = | conference = | postseason = | poll = }}

{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = Princeton Tigers

| conference = Ivy League

| startyear = 1960

| endyear = 1962

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = conference

| season = 1960–61

| name = Princeton

| overall = 9–6{{#tag:ref|Franklin Cappon served as head coach for the first 11 games of the season, leading Princeton to a 9–2 overall record and a 4–0 mark in the Ivy League. Princeton finished the season 18–8 overall and 11–3 in the Ivy.|group=n|name=1960–61season}}

| conference = 7–3

| confstanding = 1st

| postseason = NCAA University Division Regional Fourth Place

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1961–62

| name = Princeton

| overall = 13–10

| conference = 10–4

| confstanding = 3rd

| postseason =

}}