Willis Barnes
American sports coach (1900–1976)
Biographical details | |
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Born | (1900-10-22)October 22, 1900 |
Died | March 22, 1976(1976-03-22) (aged 75) |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1931 | Arizona State (line) |
1937–1941 | New Mexico (assistant) |
1942–1946 | New Mexico |
1947 | New Mexico (assistant) |
1950–1951 | New Mexico (assistant) |
1954–1955 | New Mexico (assistant) |
Basketball | |
1941–1943 | New Mexico |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 19–20–5 (football) 12–30 (basketball) |
Bowls | 1–1–1 |
Willis Lee Barnes (October 22, 1900 – March 22, 1976) was an American football, basketball, track and field, and boxing coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of New Mexico from 1942 to 1946, compiling a record of 45–35–10. Barnes was also the head basketball coach at New Mexico from 1941 to 1943, tallying a mark of 12–30. Barnes came to the University of New Mexico in 1937 as an assistant football coach.[1]
Head coaching record
Football
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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New Mexico Lobos (Border Conference) (1942–1946) | |||||||||
1942 | New Mexico | 4–5–2 | 3–4 | 6th | |||||
1943 | New Mexico | 3–2 | NA | NA | L Sun | ||||
1944 | New Mexico | 1–7 | 0–2 | NA | |||||
1945 | New Mexico | 6–1–1 | 1–0–1 | NA | W Sun | ||||
1946 | New Mexico | 5–5–2 | 4–2–1 | 3rd | T Harbor | ||||
New Mexico: | 19–20–5 | 8–8–2 | |||||||
Total: | 19–20–5 |
References
- ^ "N. M. Coach". The San Francisco Examiner. San Francisco, California. Associated Press. May 15, 1937. p. 22. Retrieved October 19, 2018 – via Newspapers.com .
External links
- Willis Barnes at Find a Grave
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New Mexico Lobos head football coaches
- No coach (1892–1893)
- William A. Zimmer (1894)
- No team (1895–1898)
- No coach (1899)
- No team (1900)
- Joe Napier (1901)
- No team (1902)
- Walter McEwan (1903–1904)
- Martin F. Angell (1905–1907)
- Hermon H. Conwell (1908)
- Sam P. McBirney (1909)
- Carl Hamilton (1910)
- Ralph Hutchinson (1911–1916)
- Frank E. Wood (1917)
- No team (1918)
- John F. McGough (1919)
- Roy W. Johnson (1920–1930)
- Chuck Riley (1931–1933)
- Gwinn Henry (1934–1936)
- Ted Shipkey (1937–1941)
- Willis Barnes (1942–1946)
- Berl Huffman (1947–1949)
- Dudley DeGroot (1950–1952)
- Bob Titchenal (1953–1955)
- Dick Clausen (1956–1957)
- Marv Levy (1958–1959)
- Bill Weeks (1960–1967)
- Rudy Feldman (1968–1973)
- Bill Mondt (1974–1979)
- Joe Morrison (1980–1982)
- Joe Lee Dunn (1983–1986)
- Mike Sheppard (1987–1991)
- Dennis Franchione (1992–1997)
- Rocky Long (1998–2008)
- Mike Locksley (2009–2011)
- George Barlow # (2011)
- Bob Davie (2012–2019)
- Danny Gonzales (2020–2023)
- Bronco Mendenhall (2024– )
# denotes interim head coach