Wilfred C. Bleamaster
{{Short description|American football and basketball coach (1881–1973)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Wilfred C. Bleamaster
| image = W C Bleamaster.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Gem of the Mountains 1918,
Idaho yearbook (spring 1917)
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1883|6|8}}
| birth_place = Lyons, Iowa, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1973|12|19|1883|6|8}}
| death_place = Los Altos, California, U.S.
| alma_mater = Grinnell College, B.S. 1908
| player_sport1 = Football
| player_years2 = c. 1907
| player_team2 = Grinnell
| player_positions =
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1909–1911
| coach_team2 = Carroll (WI)
| coach_years3 = 1912–1915
| coach_team3 = Alma
| coach_years4 = 1916–1917
| coach_team4 = Idaho
| coach_years5 = 1924–1925
| coach_team5 = Corvallis HS (OR)
| coach_years6 = 1926–1927
| coach_team6 = Albany (OR)
| coach_sport7 = Basketball
| coach_years8 = 1909–1912
| coach_team8 = Carroll (WI)
| coach_years9 = 1912–1916
| coach_team9 = Alma
| coach_years10 = 1918–1919
| coach_team10 = Idaho
| coach_years11 = 1924–1926
| coach_team11 = Corvallis HS (OR)
| coach_sport12 = Baseball
| coach_years13 = 1917–1919
| coach_team13 = Idaho
| coach_years14 = 1925–1926
| coach_team14 = Corvallis HS (OR)
| coach_sport15 = Track
| coach_years16 = 1924–1926
| coach_team16 = Corvallis HS (OR)
| admin_years1 = 1916–1920
| admin_team1 = Idaho
| admin_years2 = 1924–1926
| admin_team2 = Corvallis HS (OR)
| admin_years3 = 1926–1928
| admin_team3 = Albany (OR)
| overall_record = 28–29 (college basketball)
| bowl_record =
| tournament_record =
| championships = Football
1 MIAA (1912)
Basketball
1 Pacific Northwest Intercollegiate Conference (1919)
| awards =
| coaching_records =
}}
Wilfred Charles Bleamaster (June 8, 1883 – December 19, 1973) was an American football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at Carroll College—now Carroll University—in Waukesha, Wisconsin from 1909 to 1911, Alma College from 1912 to 1915, and the University of Idaho from 1916 to 1917, and Albany College—now known as Lewis & Clark College—from 1926 to 1927. Bleamaster was also the head basketball coach at Alma from 1912 to 1916 and at Idaho for the {{nowrap|1918–19}} season, tallying a career college basketball mark of {{nowrap|28–29.}}
Bleamaster was captain of the football team at Grinnell College in Iowa and graduated in 1908.{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r71HAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA37 |work=The Grinnell Review |agency=(Grinnell College) |title=Football |date=December 1905 |page=37 }}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uLBGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA11 |work=Annual Catalog |title=Officers of instruction |agency=(University of Idaho) |date=1919 |page=11}}
Coaching career
=Carroll=
Bleamaster the eighth head football coach for the Carroll College located in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and he held that position for three seasons, from 1909 until 1911. His coaching record at Carroll was {{nowrap|12–6–2.}}
=Alma=
Bleamaster was the head football coach at Alma College in Alma, Michigan for four seasons {{nowrap|(1912–1915),{{cite magazine |title=A Death Wish For Alma Mater |first=Gordon G. |last=Beld |url=https://www.si.com/vault/1967/09/25/609675/a-death-wish-for-alma-mater |magazine=Sports Illustrated |date= September 25, 1967 |page=M3}}}} and compiled a record of {{nowrap|11–13–3.{{cite web |url=http://issuu.com/almasportsinformation/docs/2011footballmediaguide/1 |title=Alma College Football 2011 Media Guide |pages=33, 44 |access-date=September 28, 2012}}}}
=Idaho=
Bleamaster went west in 1916 to the University of Idaho in Moscow to become its eighth head football coach and the athletic director. He coached the Idaho Vandals for the 1916 and 1917 seasons, and his teams posted a record of {{nowrap|5–8}} in two seasons.{{cite web |url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=188 |title=Wilfred C. Bleasmaster Records by Year |publisher=College Football Data Warehouse |access-date=September 28, 2012 |archive-date=October 8, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008101814/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=188 |url-status=dead }} Idaho did not field a football team in 1918, but Bleamaster succeeded Hec Edmundson as head coach of the basketball team for one season. He led Idaho to a {{nowrap|10–2}} record and a championship in the Pacific Northwest Intercollegiate Conference in 1919,{{cite web|url=https://issuu.com/uidahodigital/docs/gem1920/134 |publisher=Gem of the Mountains, University of Idaho yearbook |title=Basketball: 1918-19 season |date=Spring 1919 |agency=(junior class (1920), volume 17) |page=124}} and also led the baseball program for three seasons.{{cite web|url=https://issuu.com/uidahodigital/docs/gem1921/138 |publisher=Gem of the Mountains, University of Idaho yearbook |title=Baseball: 1919 season |date=Spring 1920 |agency=(junior class (1921), volume 18) |page=135}}
=Corvallis High School and Albany College=
In August 1924, Bleamaster was hired as athletic director and football coach at Corvallis High School in Corvallis, Oregon.{{cite news |author= |title=High School Coach Is Selected Today |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119772714/corvallis-gazette-times/ |newspaper=Corvallis Gazette-Times |location=Corvallis, Oregon |date=August 24, 1924 |page=1 |access-date=February 26, 2023 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} He also coached basketball, baseball, track at Corvallis. In August 1926, Bleamaster moved on to Albany College—now known as Lewis & Clark College—in Albany, Oregon, to take charge of all athletics at the school.{{cite news |author= |title=Corvallis High Coach To Take Charge At A.C. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119773663/albany-democrat-herald/ |newspaper=Albany Democrat-Herald |location=Albany, Oregon |date=August 25, 1926 |page=6 |access-date=February 26, 2023 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} He resigned from his post at Albany College after two years.{{cite news |author= |title=W. C. Bleamaster Resigns From Albany College Work |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119774319/corvallis-gazette-times/ |newspaper=Corvallis Gazette-Times |location=Corvallis, Oregon |date=June 13, 1928 |page=6 |access-date=February 26, 2023 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
Late life and death
Bleamaster returned to Corvallis in 1929 and worked as salesman there until 1958. From 1964 to 1969, he lived at the Hotel Benton in Corvallis. Bleamaster later resided with his daughter in Stanford, California.{{cite news |author= |title=Bleamaster |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119775221/corvallis-gazette-times/ |newspaper=Corvallis Gazette-Times |location=Corvallis, Oregon |date=January 4, 1974 |page=2 |access-date=February 26, 2023 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} He died after a brief illness, on December 19, 1973, at a convalescent hospital in Los Altos, California.{{cite news |author= |title=Wilfred C. Bleamaster |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119774645/obituary-for-wilfred-c-bleamaster/ |newspaper=Palo Alto Times |location=Palo Alto, California |date=December 22, 1973 |page=2 |access-date=February 26, 2023 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
Head coaching record
=College football=
{{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Carroll Pioneers
| conf = Independent
| startyear = 1909
| endyear = 1911
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1909
| name = Carroll
| overall = 6–0
| conference =
| confstanding =
| bowlname =
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| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1910
| name = Carroll
| overall = 3–2–1
| conference =
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1911
| name = Carroll
| overall = 3–4–1
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| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Carroll
| overall = 12–6–2
| confrecord =
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Alma Maroon and Cream
| conf = Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
| startyear = 1912
| endyear = 1915
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1912
| name = Alma
| overall = 6–1
| conference = 3–0
| confstanding = 1st
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1913
| name = Alma
| overall = 3–4
| conference = 2–1
| confstanding = T–2nd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1914
| name = Alma
| overall = 1–5–1
| conference = 0–2
| confstanding = 6th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1915
| name = Alma
| overall = 1–3–2
| conference = 1–0–2
| confstanding = 2nd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Alma
| overall = 11–13–3
| confrecord = 6–3–2
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Idaho
| conf = Northwest Conference
| startyear = 1916
| endyear = 1917
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1916
| name = Idaho
| overall = 3–5
| conference = 0–3
| confstanding = 6th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1917
| name = Idaho
| overall = 2–3
| conference = 1–3
| confstanding = 5th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Idaho
| overall = 5–8
| confrecord = 1–6
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Albany Pirates
| conf = Independent
| startyear = 1926
| endyear = 1927
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1926
| name = Albany
| overall =
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| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1927
| name = Albany
| overall =
| conference =
| confstanding =
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| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Albany
| overall =
| confrecord =
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{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall =
| bowls = no
| poll = no
| polltype =
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References
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