Volney Ashford
{{Short description|American football player and coach (1907–1973)}}
{{about|the American football coach|the American soldier|Volney V. Ashford}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Volney Ashford
| image = Volney Ashford.jpg
| alt =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1907|11|15}}
| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1973|10|14|1907|11|15}}
| death_place = Marshall, Missouri, U.S.
| alma_mater =
| player_sport1 = Football
| player_years2 = 1927–1929
| player_team2 = Missouri Valley
| player_positions = Quarterback
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1931
| coach_team2 = Missouri Valley (assistant)
| coach_years3 = 1932–1936
| coach_team3 = Harrisonville HS (MO)
| coach_years4 = 1937–1942
| coach_team4 = Missouri Valley
| coach_years5 = 1946–1967
| coach_team5 = Missouri Valley
| overall_record = 197–55–12 (college football)
25–12–4 (high school football)
| bowl_record = 3–3–3
| tournament_record =
| championships = 13 MCAU (1939, 1941–1942, 1946–1949, 1951–1952, 1954–1955, 1958, 1960–1961)
| awards = NAIA Coach of the Year (1958)
| coaching_records =
| CFBHOF_year = 2009
| CFBHOF_id = 2234
}}
Volney C. Ashford (November 15, 1907 – October 14, 1973) was an American football coach. He served as the head coach at Missouri Valley College for 28 season, from 1937 to 1942 and again from 1946 to 1967. He led the Missouri Valley Vikings to nine bowl games, including the Mineral Water Bowl in 1955 and the 1956 Tangerine Bowl.
Ashford left Missouri Valley during World War II to serve in the United States Navy. He was commissioned a lieutenant junior grade and left for the North Carolina Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill, North Carolina in the spring of 1943.{{cite news |author= |title=Sporting Comment |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55812997/the-kansas-city-star/ |newspaper=The Kansas City Star |location=Kansas City, Missouri |date=April 13, 1943 |page=11 |access-date=July 21, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} Ashford was later stationed at Iowa City, Iowa and returned to Missouri Valley in December 1945.{{cite news |author= |title=Ashford Back On Job |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55813121/the-kansas-city-times/ |newspaper=Kansas City Times |location=Kansas City, Missouri |date=December 6, 1945 |page=17 |access-date=July 21, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
Ashford died of a heart attack on October 14, 1973.{{cite news |author= |title=Volney Ashford Dies at 65 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39282321/the_kansas_city_times/ |newspaper=Kansas City Times |location=Kansas City, Missouri |date=October 15, 1973 |page=28 |access-date=November 19, 2019 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2009.
Head coaching record
=College football=
{{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Missouri Valley Vikings
| conf = Missouri College Athletic Union
| startyear = 1937
| endyear = 1942
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1937
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 3–4–1
| conference = 1–3
| confstanding = T–4th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1938
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 5–3–1
| conference = 1–2–1
| confstanding = T–3rd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1939
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 7–1
| conference = 3–1
| confstanding = T–1st
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1940
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 2–5–1
| conference = 2–2
| confstanding = 3rd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1941
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 7–2
| conference = 3–0
| confstanding = 1st
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1942
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 9–0
| conference = 4–0
| confstanding = 1st
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Missouri Valley Vikings
| conf = Missouri College Athletic Union
| startyear = 1946
| endyear = 1967
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1946
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 10–0
| conference = 4–0
| confstanding = 1st
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1947
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 12–0
| conference = 4–0
| confstanding = 1st
| bowlname = Boys' Ranch Bowl, W Cigar
| bowloutcome = W
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1948
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 9–1–1
| conference = 4–0
| confstanding = 1st
| bowlname = Refrigerator, T Cigar
| bowloutcome = L
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1949
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 8–3
| conference = 3–0
| confstanding = 1st
| bowlname = Oleander Bowl
| bowloutcome = L
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1950
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 8–2
| conference = 2–1
| confstanding = 2nd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1951
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 10–1
| conference = 4–0
| confstanding = 1st
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1952
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 6–4
| conference = 4–0
| confstanding = 1st
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1953
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 7–1–1
| conference = 3–1
| confstanding = 2nd
| bowlname = Cigar
| bowloutcome = T
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1954
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 7–1–2
| conference = 2–0–1
| confstanding = T–1st
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1955
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 9–1–1
| conference = 1–0
| confstanding = 1st
| bowlname = Mineral Water, T Tangerine
| bowloutcome = W
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1956
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 8–2–1
| conference = 0–0–1
| confstanding = T–3rd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1957
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 4–2
| conference = 0–0
| confstanding = NA
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1958
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 8–1
| conference = 3–0
| confstanding = 1st
| bowlname = Tangerine
| bowloutcome = L
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1959
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 7–2
| conference = 2–1
| confstanding = 2nd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1960
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 7–1–1
| conference = 3–0–1
| confstanding = T–1st
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1961
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 9–0–1
| conference = 4–0
| confstanding = 1st
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1962
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 6–3
| conference = 3–1
| confstanding = 2nd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1963
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 5–4
| conference = 3–1
| confstanding = 2nd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1964
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 7–2
| conference = 3–1
| confstanding = 2nd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1965
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 4–5
| conference = 3–1
| confstanding = 2nd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1966
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 6–3
| conference = 1–1
| confstanding = 4th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1967
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 6–4
| conference = 1–1
| confstanding = T–3rd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Missouri Valley
| overall = 196–58–11
| confrecord = 71–17–4
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall = 196–58–11
| bowls = no
| poll = no
| polltype =
}}
References
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External links
- {{College Football HoF|2234}}
{{Missouri Valley Vikings football coach navbox}}
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Category:United States Navy officers
Category:People from Marshall, Missouri
Category:Players of American football from Chicago
Category:Military personnel from Illinois
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