Tony Knap
{{Short description|American football player and coach (1914–2011)}}
{{For|the British footballer|Tony Knapp}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Tony Knap
| image = Tony Knap.png
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| caption = Knap, {{Circa|1980}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1914|12|8}}
| birth_place = Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2011|9|24|1914|12|8}}
| death_place = Pullman, Washington, U.S.
| alma_mater = University of Idaho,
B.S. 1939, M.Ed. 1953
| player_years1 = 1935–1938
| player_team1 = Idaho
| coach_years1 = 1939–1941
| coach_team1 = Bonners Ferry HS (ID)
| coach_years2 = 1942
| coach_team2 = Lewiston HS (ID) (asstistant)
| coach_years3 = 1946–1948
| coach_team3 = Potlatch HS (ID)
| coach_years4 = 1949–1958
| coach_team4 = Pittsburg HS (CA)
| coach_years5 = 1959–1962
| coach_team5 = Utah State (asstistant)
| coach_years6 = 1963–1966
| coach_team6 = Utah State
| coach_years7 = 1967
| coach_team7 = BC Lions (asstistant)
| coach_years8 = 1968–1975
| coach_team8 = Boise State
| coach_years9 = 1976–1981
| coach_team9 = UNLV
| overall_record = 143–53–4 (college)
109–22–6 (high school)
| bowl_record = 1–0
| tournament_record = 1–3 (D-II playoffs)
| championships = 3 Big Sky (1973–1975)
| awards = First-team All-PCC (1938)
| coaching_records =
{{Infobox military person
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| allegiance = {{USA}}
| branch = {{flag|United States Navy}}
| rank =
| battles = World War II
| unit = Training
| serviceyears = 1943–1946
| awards =
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}}
Anthony Joseph Knap (December 8, 1914 – September 24, 2011) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Utah State University from 1963 to 1966, Boise State University from 1968 to 1975, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) from 1976 to 1981, compiling a career college football head coaching record of 143–53–4. Knap also worked as a high school teacher and coach, and served in the United States Navy during World War II.
Early years and college
The oldest son of Polish immigrants, Knap was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and graduated from Riverside High School (a.k.a. East), where he was an All-City selection in football in 1934.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=71EaAAAAIBAJ&pg=1882,695377|newspaper= Milwaukee Journal|title=Knap, a former all-city gridder, named head coach at Utah State|date=January 23, 1963|page=14}} Along with three other Milwaukee freshman, he accepted a football scholarship to the University of Idaho in Moscow and played on the Vandals freshman team in the fall of 1935,{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eKBQAAAAIBAJ&pg=1582,1091360|newspaper=Milwaukee Journal|title=Milwaukee boys star on Idaho frosh '11'|date=December 10, 1935|page=5 }}{{cite web|url=http://issuu.com/uidahodigital/docs/gem1936/122|publisher=Gem of the Mountains, University of Idaho yearbook|year=1936|title=Freshman football (fall 1935)|page=122}} then lettered for three seasons (1936–38) on the varsity under head coach Ted Bank.{{cite web|url=http://issuu.com/uidahodigital/docs/gem1937/52|publisher=Gem of the Mountains, University of Idaho yearbook|year=1937|title=Football (fall 1936)|page=48}}{{cite web|url=http://issuu.com/uidahodigital/docs/gem1938/172|publisher=Gem of the Mountains, University of Idaho yearbook|year=1938|title=Football (fall 1937)|page=168}}{{cite news|url=http://issuu.com/uidahodigital/docs/gem1939/300|publisher=Gem of the Mountains, University of Idaho yearbook|year=1939|title=1938 Football|page=300}} Among his UI teammates were future head coaches and administrators Lyle Smith{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iNZXAAAAIBAJ&pg=7275,3101736&dq=tony+knap+lyle+smith&hl=en|newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle|location=(Washington)|title=Ding-dong gridiron battle expected Saturday when Idaho and Gonzaga tangle at Moscow|date=October 14, 1938|page=10}} and Steve Belko.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sm1WAAAAIBAJ&pg=6861,2171850&dq=tony+knap+lyle+smith+steve+belko&hl=en|newspaper=Spokesman-Review|location=(Spokane, Washington)|title=Idaho is given final session|date=October 6, 1937|page=15}} Other teammates included future Idaho athletic director Leon Green,{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iXZfAAAAIBAJ&pg=5568,6063508|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune |location=(Idaho)|title=What Leon Green has in mind for Vandal athletics|date= December 23, 1973|page=5}} and NFL pros George "Iron Man" Thiessen (Rams),{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5MVeAAAAIBAJ&pg=1812,2820180|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune |location=(Idaho)|title=Forty years ago|date= August 8, 1978|page=4A}}{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sKFfAAAAIBAJ&pg=3294,1466041|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|location=(Idaho)|title=George Thiessen may join Rams in pro grid circuit|date=January 1938|page=9}} Stonko Pavkov (Steelers),{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BNZXAAAAIBAJ&pg=7390,2506459|newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=(Washington)|title=Stonko Pavkov to Pittsburgh|date=February 12, 1940|page=12}} Dean Green (Eagles),{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ef5RAAAAIBAJ&pg=5200,5375310|newspaper=Oxnard Press-Courier|location=(California) |title=Dean of Education |date=January 28, 1968|page=3-PC}} Richard "Truck" Trzuskowski (Lions),{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fHYxAAAAIBAJ&pg=6983,829877|newspaper=Milwaukee Journal|title=Knap, Milwaukee boy, makes All-Coast team|last=Gibbs|first=Rafe|date=November 18, 1937|page=7}} and Hal Roise (Bears).
As a senior in 1938,{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=etMsAAAAIBAJ&pg=1342,6481142&dq=tony+knap&hl=en|newspaper=Bend Bulletin|location=(Oregon)|agency=UPI|title=Idaho football prospects good|date=July 13, 1938|page=2}}{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3idWAAAAIBAJ&pg=5100,4453308&dq=knap&hl=en|newspaper=Spokesman-Review|title=Vandals ready to hit Gonzaga|date=October 15, 1938|page=15}} Knap was a second-team All-Coast selection at end, the only Vandal to make any of the three teams.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KB9WAAAAIBAJ&pg=5649%2C827383|newspaper=Spokesman-Review|location=(Spokane, Washington)|title=All-Coast grid team selected|agency=Associated Press|date=December 3, 1938|page=13}} The Vandals broke to an early 3–0–1 start in 1938 and there was early talk of the Rose Bowl in the national press.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pppQAAAAIBAJ&pg=3443,180979|newspaper=Milwaukee Journal|title=Idaho in Rose Bowl? It surely can happen|agency=UPI|date= October 21, 1938|page=9}} Three conference losses later, the Vandals finished the season at {{winpct|6|3|1|record=y}}, Idaho's last winning season for a quarter century;{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HVZYAAAAIBAJ&pg=7109%2C94505|newspaper= Spokane Daily Chronicle|location=(Washington)|title=Dee Andros named Oregon State grid coach|last=Johnson|first=Bob|date=February 1, 1965|page=15}} not improved upon until 1971.
Knap was also a pitcher and utility player for three seasons on the varsity baseball team,{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=g69fAAAAIBAJ&pg=6334,2055690&dq=tony+knap&hl=en|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|location=(Idaho)|title=Vandals' ball squad to invade West Coast|date=April 4, 1937|page=13}}{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jKRfAAAAIBAJ&pg=2839,443199&dq=tony+knap&hl=en|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|location=(Idaho)|title=Vandals' ball team stronger|date=April 7, 1938|page=9}}{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oLFWAAAAIBAJ&pg=5115,433279&dq=tony+knap&hl=en|newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard|location=(Oregon)|title=Idaho nine set for Oregon series|date=April 4, 1939|page=4}}
and a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.{{cite news|url=http://issuu.com/uidahodigital/docs/gem1939/72|publisher=Gem of the Mountains, University of Idaho yearbook|year=1939|title=Seniors|page=73}}{{cite news|url=http://issuu.com/uidahodigital/docs/gem1939/72|publisher=Gem of the Mountains, University of Idaho yearbook|year=1939|title=Sigma Alpha Epsilon|page=176}}
High school coach
After earning a bachelor's degree in education in 1939, Knap became a high school teacher and coach for three years in Bonners Ferry,{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=z8leAAAAIBAJ&pg=4937,3086302|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|location=(Idaho)|agency=Associated Press|title=Knap is hired by Utah State|date=January 23, 1963|page=8}}{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kppfAAAAIBAJ&pg=6661,3212618|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|location=(Idaho)|agency=Associated Press|title=Tony Knap signs up as coach at Bonners Ferry|date=May 13, 1939|page=9}} just south of Canada. While waiting for his military commission following the outbreak of World War II, he spent a fall at Lewiston High School in 1942 as an assistant under former Vandal teammate Steve Belko.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XKZfAAAAIBAJ&pg=1481,4283967&dq=tony+knap&hl=en|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|location=(Idaho)|title=Glances from the sidelines at the Turkey Day game|page=7|date=November 27, 1942}} Knap served in the U.S. Navy, then returned to coaching after the war back in Idaho at Potlatch, near Moscow, and stayed with the Loggers until the summer of 1949.{{cite news |title=Anthony Joseph (Tony) Knap, 96 |url=http://lmtribune.com/obituaries/article_25e3c321-05de-5db1-bd00-62f949963ab1.html |newspaper=Lewiston Tribune|location=(Idaho) |date=September 29, 2011 |accessdate=October 13, 2011}}
He attended a summer coaching clinic in 1949 in the Bay Area and was offered a head coaching position at Pittsburg High School in Pittsburg, California. Knap accepted and moved his family south to northern California. He stayed at the East Bay school for ten years, through the 1958 season; his overall record as a high school coach was {{winpct|109|22|6|record=y}}.
College coach
=Utah State=
Knap left Pittsburg to become an assistant coach at Utah State in 1959 under new coach John Ralston.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yqsvAAAAIBAJ&pg=4164,3435023|newspaper=Deseret News|location=(Salt Lake City, Utah)|title=New Aggie coaching duo is shootin' high|date=September 16, 1959|page=B6}}[http://www.utahstateaggies.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/100611aab.html Utah State Aggies.com] - Former Aggie football coach Tony Knap recently passed away - 2011-10-06 - accessed 2012-03-25{{cite news |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705392045/Former-Aggie-football-coach-Tony-Knap-dies-at-96.html?pg=all |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170104090718/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705392045/Former-Aggie-football-coach-Tony-Knap-dies-at-96.html?pg=all |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 4, 2017 |newspaper=Deseret News |location=(Salt Lake City, Utah) |last=Hoffman |first=Doug |title=Former Aggie football coach Tony Knap dies at 96 |date=October 6, 2011 |accessdate=January 3, 2017}} He was credited with developing the big, agile lines which contributed to the Aggies' rise to national prominence. One of those lineman was Merlin Olsen, a future hall of famer in the NFL. (Olsen selected Knap for his presenter at the enshrinement ceremonies in 1982.)[http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.aspx?PlayerId=168&tab=Speech Pro Football Hall of Fame] - Merlin Olsen - enshrinement speech - accessed 2012-03-25
After posting a {{winpct|26|3|1|record=y}} regular season record in his final three years at USU, Ralston left Logan for Stanford after the 1962 season and Knap was quickly promoted to head coach,{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=z8leAAAAIBAJ&pg=4937,3086302|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|location=(Idaho)|title=Knap is hired by Utah State|date=January 23, 1963|page=8}} where he compiled a {{winpct|25|14|1|record=y}} record in four seasons, from 1963 to 1966. His 1965 team was 8–2, but the Aggies slipped to 4–6 in 1966. With mixed support from his administrators, Knap resigned in January 1967 to accept a position with the BC Lions in the Canadian Football League (CFL).{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aKxWAAAAIBAJ&pg=3956,928632|newspaper=Spokesman-Review|location=(Spokane, Washington)|title=Tony Knap resigns|agency=Associated Press|date=January 19, 1967|page=11}}
In rivalry games, his Utah State teams were 3–1 against BYU for The Old Wagon Wheel and 2–2 against Utah in the Battle of the Brothers.
=Boise State=
The Lions had a woeful year in 1967, going 3–12–1 and finishing in last in the CFL's Western Division.{{cite web|url=https://www.cfl.ca/standings/1967/reg|publisher=Canadian Football League|title=1967 Regular Season Standings|accessdate=February 6, 2014|page=11}} Knap did not return for another season. Instead, he succeeded Lyle Smith as head coach at Boise College in 1968, soon to become "Boise State College" (and BSU in 1974). Smith had just stepped down as head coach and as the athletic director, hired his former Vandal teammate. It was Boise's first year as an NAIA independent; it had previously competed in the junior college ranks. Two years later in 1970, the Broncos began play in the NCAA in Division II (then the "College Division") and the Big Sky Conference. Knap led the Broncos to a {{nowrap|71–19–1}} ({{winpct|71|19|1}}) record in eight years, including three ten-win seasons and three consecutive Big Sky titles {{nowrap|(1973–75).{{cite web |url=http://boisestate.scout.com/2/884980.html |title=The Story Of A Bronco Legend |author=Bronco Bob |date=August 16, 2009 |work=BroncoCountry |publisher=Scout.com |accessdate=October 13, 2011}}}} His salary was $16,800 in 1971 and $18,800 in 1972.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RtJRAAAAIBAJ&pg=2897%2C158010|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|location=(Idaho)|title=School board okehs raise for Boise State football coach|agency=Associated Press|date=June 1, 1972|page=18}}
Knap led the Broncos to a 3–1–1 record against his alma mater in the first five games of the Boise State–Idaho rivalry.
=UNLV=
His success in Boise led him south to Las Vegas in 1976,{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BrFfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4jIMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5832%2C7927816 |newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune |location=(Idaho)|agency=Associated Press |title=Knap leaves Boise State for Las Vegas |date=January 30, 1976 |page=1B }}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qPMjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=b-0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6848%2C5214520|newspaper=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington)|agency=Associated Press |title=Boise's Knap off to Vegas |date=January 30, 1976 |page=17}} where he coached UNLV for six seasons and compiled a {{winpct|47|20|2|record=y}} record, stepping down at age 67 after the 1981 season.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WapfAAAAIBAJ&pg=5753%2C3662507 |newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune |location=(Idaho)|agency=Associated Press |title=Knap resigns at UNLV, plans to grow apples |date=November 24, 1981 |page=3C}} UNLV made the Division II playoffs in his first season and moved up to Division I-A in 1978, his third season at the school. While Knap was head coach, the Rebels played as an independent; UNLV joined the PCAA the following season in 1982. He was inducted into UNLV's hall of fame in 1989.{{cite news |title=UNLV memories most vivid for Knap |first=Mark |last=Anderson |url=http://www.lvrj.com/sports/unlv-memories-most-vivid-for-knap-114891659.html |newspaper=Las Vegas Review-Journal |date=January 30, 2011 |accessdate=October 13, 2011}}
He led the Rebels to a 3–1 record over Nevada in the rivalry game for the Fremont Cannon. The game was not played in 1980, 1981, or 1982.
Personal life
Knap married Doris Adella "Mickey" McFarland (1920–2013), a former UI student born in St. Maries,{{cite web|url=http://issuu.com/uidahodigital/docs/gem1940/106 |publisher=Gem of the Mountains, University of Idaho yearbook|year=1936|title=Freshman|page=103}}{{cite news |url=http://lmtribune.com/obituaries/doris-mcfarland-knap/article_584ca269-3032-5da6-91a4-a2df418aadfd.html |newspaper=Lewiston Tribune |location=(Idaho)|agency=(obituary)|title=Doris McFarland Knap |date=November 6, 2013 |accessdate=January 3, 2017}} during his first year as a teacher. They were wed in April 1941 in Bonners Ferry and had three daughters: Jacqueline, Angeline, and Caroline.[http://shortsfuneralchapel.com/archives/626 shortsfuneralchapel.net] - obituaries - Tony Knap - accessed 2012-03-25 In addition to his bachelor's degree, he also earned a master's degree from Idaho, completing it in 1953 while in California.
Following his retirement from coaching, Knap and his wife moved to Walla Walla, Washington, in 1982.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ratfAAAAIBAJ&pg=4184,2897998|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|location=(Idaho)|title=Tony Knap loved his years in coaching, now he's learning to love retirement|date=August 8, 1982|page=D1}} They were married over 70 years when he died on September 24, 2011, at Bishop Place Retirement Center in Pullman; he was age 96 and had suffered for several years from Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |title=Former UNLV football coach Tony Knap dies at 96 |first=Mark |last=Anderson |url=http://www.lvrj.com/sports/former-unlv-football-coach-tony-knap-dies-at-97-130580628.html |newspaper=Las Vegas Review-Journal |date=September 26, 2011 |accessdate=October 13, 2011}} She died two years later at age 93, also in Pullman.
Head coaching record
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