Ken Gleason

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| player_sport1 = Football

| player_years2 = 1935–1937

| player_team2 = Fresno State

| player_years3 = c. 1943

| player_team3 = Saint Mary's Pre-Flight

| player_positions = Fullback

| coach_sport1 = Football

| coach_years2 = 1938

| coach_team2 = Fowler HS (CA)

| coach_years3 = 1945

| coach_team3 = Hutchinson NAS

| coach_years4 = 1946

| coach_team4 = Fresno State (assistant)

| coach_years5 = 1947–1948

| coach_team5 = Fresno State

| coach_sport6 = Baseball

| coach_years7 = 1947

| coach_team7 = Fresno State

| overall_record = 6–12–3 (college football)
9–20 (college baseball)

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Kenneth Gleason was an American football player and coach of football and baseball. He served as the head football coach at Fresno State College—now known as California State University, Fresno—from 1947 to 1948, compiling a record of 6–12–3. Bradshaw was also the head baseball coach as Fresno state in 1947, tallying a mark of 9–20. A native of Santa Cruz, California, he played college football at Fresno State, lettering as a fullback from 1935 to 1937. In 1938, Bradshaw was appointed head football coach at Fowler High School in Fowler, California.{{cite news |author= |title=Ken Gleason To Coach At Fowler High |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26834178/santa_cruz_sentinel/ |newspaper=Santa Cruz Sentinel |location=Santa Cruz, California |agency=Associated Press |date=June 18, 1938 |page=2 |access-date=January 4, 2019 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} During World War II, he served in the United States Navy, playing with the Saint Mary's Pre-Flight Air Devils football team before coaching undefeated football team in 1945 at a naval air station in Hutchinson, Kansas. He returned to Fresno State in 1946 as an assistant football coach, working under head coach James Bradshaw.{{cite news |author= |title=Ken Gleason Head Coach At Fresno State |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26834116/santa_cruz_sentinel/ |newspaper=Santa Cruz Sentinel |location=Santa Cruz, California |date=February 9, 1947 |page=6 |access-date=January 4, 2019 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}