Les Cranfill
American football, basketball, and baseball coach
Biographical details | |
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Born | (1899-05-18)May 18, 1899 Mitchell County, Texas, U.S. |
Died | July 29, 1983(1983-07-29) (aged 84) Richardson, Texas, U.S. |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1924 | Laneri HS (TX) |
1925 | TCU (freshmen) |
1926 | Simmons (TX) (backfield) |
1930–1934 | Simmons (TX) / Hardin–Simmons |
Basketball | |
1930–1934 | Simmons (TX) / Hardin–Simmons |
Baseball | |
1927 | Simmons (TX) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 21–22–4 (college football) 63–18 (college basketball) 10–5 (college baseball) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
Football 1 Texas Conference (1931) | |
Leslie Willard Cranfill (May 18, 1899 – July 29, 1983) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served two stints as the head football coach at Hardin–Simmons University from 1930 to 1934, compiling a record of 21–22–4.[1]
Head coaching record
College football
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Simmons/Hardin–Simmons Cowboys (Texas Conference) (1930–1934) | |||||||||
1930 | Simmons | 5–1–4 | 1–1–3 | T–3rd | |||||
1931 | Simmons | 6–5 | 4–1 | T–1st | |||||
1932 | Simmons | 4–5–1 | 1–2–1 | T–3rd | |||||
1933 | Simmons | 3–6–1 | 1–2–1 | 6th | |||||
1934 | Hardin–Simmons | 3–5–2 | 2–2–1 | 5th | |||||
Simmons / Hardin–Simmons: | 21–22–4 | 9–8–6 | |||||||
Total: | 21–22–4 | ||||||||
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth |
References
- ^ "Veteran Coach Les Cranfill Is Looking Forward to Retirement". Corsicana Daily Sun. Corsicana, Texas. June 28, 1963. p. 20. Retrieved April 28, 2019 – via Newspapers.com .
External links
- Les Cranfill at Find a Grave
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Hardin–Simmons Cowboys head football coaches
- Carl Krause (1897–1898)
- No team (1899–1903)
- Dallas Scarbrough (1904–1907)
- George W. Mullins (1908–1909)
- No team (1910–1916)
- Hubert D. Martin (1917–1918)
- Katy Easterday (1919–1920)
- Arthur Bell Hays (1921–1923)
- P. E. Shotwell (1924–1925)
- Victor Payne (1926)
- Frank Bridges (1927–1929)
- Les Cranfill (1930–1934)
- Frank Kimbrough (1935–1940)
- Warren B. Woodson (1941–1942)
- Clark Jarnagin # (1942)
- No team (1943–1945)
- Warren B. Woodson (1946–1951)
- Murray Evans (1952–1954)
- Sammy Baugh (1955–1959)
- Howard McChesney (1960–1961)
- Jack Thomas (1962)
- Floyd Huggins (1963)
- No team (1964–1989)
- Jimmie Keeling (1990–2010)
- Jesse Burleson (2011– )
# denotes interim head coach