| Ewing Y. Freeland | |
| File:EYFreeland.jpg Freeland pictured in La Ventana 1927, Texas Tech yearbook | |
| Sport(s) | Football, basketball, baseball |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born | January 1, 1887 Turnersville, Texas |
| Died | August 15, 1963 (aged 76) Brownwood, Texas |
| Playing career | |
| Football 1908–1911 | Vanderbilt |
| Position(s) | Tackle (football) First baseman (baseball) |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football 1915 1919–1920 1921 1922–1923 1925–1928 1936–1938 Basketball 1915–1916 1921–1922 Baseball 1916 1923–1924 1926–1927 | TCU Austin Millsaps SMU Texas Tech Austin TCU Millsaps TCU SMU Texas Tech |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1925–1927 1935–1938 | Texas Tech Austin |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 41–23–8 (football) 2–11 (basketball) 50–47–3 (baseball) |
| Statistics College Football Data Warehouse | |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships Football 1 SWC (1923) | |
Ewing Young "Big 'un" Freeland (January 1, 1887 – August 15, 1953) was an American football and baseball player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball in the United States. He served as the head football coach at Texas Christian University (1915), Millsaps College (1921), Southern Methodist University (1922–1923, with Ray Morrison), and Texas Tech University (1925–1928), compiling a career college football record of 41–23–8. Freeland was also the head basketball coach at TCU for one season in 1915–1916 and at Millsaps for one season in 1921–1922. In addition, he was the head baseball coach at TCU (1916), SMU (1923–1924), and Texas Tech (1926–1927), amassing a career college baseball record of 50–47–3.
Freeland was born on January 1, 1887 in Turnersville, Texas and died on August 15, 1953 in Brownwood, Texas.[1] He played football and baseball at Vanderbilt University, from which he graduated in 1912. In 1915, Freeland coached football at TCU, compiling a 4–5 record. In 1922 and 1923, Freeland co-coached the SMU Mustangs football team with his former teammate at Vanderbilt, Ray Morrison. The two effectively shared the heading coaching duties, with Morrison focusing on the backfield and ends, and Freeland mentoring the linemen.[2] In 1925, Freeland became the first coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, then known then as the Matadors. He coached football at Texas Tech from 1925 to 1928, where he had a 21–10–6 record. Freeland was also the first head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders baseball team and Texas Tech's first athletic director.[3] He is credited with designing Texas Tech's Double T logo and had it put on the sweaters of football players.[4]
The older version of Texas Tech's Double-T logo
Head coaching record[]
Football[]
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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| TCU Horned Frogs (Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1915) | |||||||||
| 1915 | TCU | 4–5 | |||||||
| TCU: | 4–5 | ||||||||
| Millsaps Majors (Independent) (1921) | |||||||||
| 1921 | Millsaps | 1–5–1 | |||||||
| Millsaps: | 1–5–1 | ||||||||
| SMU Mustangs (Southwest Conference) (1922–1923) | |||||||||
| 1922 | SMU | 6–3–1 | 2–2 | T–3rd | |||||
| 1923 | SMU | 9–0 | 5–0 | 1st | |||||
| SMU: | 15–3–1 | 7–2 | |||||||
| Texas Tech Matadors (Independent) (1925–1928) | |||||||||
| 1925 | Texas Tech | 6–1–2 | |||||||
| 1926 | Texas Tech | 6–1–3 | |||||||
| 1927 | Texas Tech | 5–4 | |||||||
| 1928 | Texas Tech | 4–4–1 | |||||||
| Texas Tech: | 21–10–6 | 18–15–1 | |||||||
| Total: | 41–23–8 | ||||||||
| National championship Conference title Conference division title | |||||||||
References[]
- ↑ "Youngs-Ireland, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Texas". Ancestry.com. http://genforum.genealogy.com/young/messages/15694.html. Retrieved April 2, 2011.
- ↑ NEA Service (December 21, 1923). "Texas Turns Out Latest Wonder Team of Gridion". Evening Independent. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=y-BPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xlQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2433,2879254. Retrieved April 2, 2011.
- ↑ Andrews, Ruth Horn (1956). The First Thirty Years: a History of Texas Technological College. Lubbock, Texas: The Texas Tech Press. p. 298.
- ↑ "Double T Symbol". Texas Tech University. http://www.ttu.edu/traditions/doublet.php. Retrieved September 24, 2008.
External links[]
- Ewing Y. Freeland at the College Football Data Warehouse
- Ewing Y. Freeland at College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com
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