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Harding Bisons Football
The Harding Bisons football program represents Harding University in college football as a Division II member of the Great American Conference. Harding is located in Searcy, Arkansas. The Bisons are led by head coach Paul Simmons, a former Harding linebacker, with a record of 59-13. Simmons has coached the Bisons to four playoff appearances in a row, not counting the cancelled 2020 season. The back-to-back 2016 and 2017 seasons were the most successful run in the history of the program. Ronnie Huckeba's 2016 squad, before his retirement from coaching, won the conference title before making it to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division II playoffs. The following year under first-year head coach Simmons, the Bisons won three post-season games to make it to the semifinals of the playoffs before losing to Texas A&M-Commerce (the storied football program formerly and widely known as East Texas State). There are 52 former Bison football players who have earned All-American status, eith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Simmons (American Football)
Paul Simmons is an American college football coach. He is the head football coach for Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas; a position he has held since 2017. He has won Great American Conference championships in 2021, 2023, reached the semifinals of the NCAA Division II Football Championship playoffs in 2017, and won the NCAA Division II national championship in 2023. As a player for Harding, Simmons was a three-time first-team All-American linebacker and defensive end. He was inducted into the Harding Athletics Hall of Fame in 1999. Simmons played high school football for the Ashdown High School Panthers in Ashdown, Arkansas Ashdown (formerly Turkey Flats and Keller) is a city in Little River County, Arkansas, United States. The community was incorporated in 1892 and has been the county seat since 1906. Located within the Arkansas Timberlands between the Little Riv ... from 1988 to 1990. Simmons joined Harding as an assistant coach in 2006, and became the Defensive Coord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Fiser
Paul Idell Fiser (February 10, 1908 – June 25, 1978) was an American football coach. He was the head coach at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, for one season in 1931, compiling a record of 4–3, after which the school shut down the program until 1959. The student body of Harding College was happily taken with their new coach in 1931, and wrote to him via the Harding yearbook, the Petit Jean: Fiser played college football at Arkansas College (now known as Lyon College) in Batesville, Arkansas. Fiser later taught at Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, Arkansas Russellville is the county seat and largest city in Pope County, Arkansas, United States, with a 2021 estimated population of 29,338. It is home to Arkansas Tech University. Arkansas Nuclear One, Arkansas' only nuclear power plant is nearby. Rus ..., where he served as a physical education instructor in the naval cadet program and was supervisor of the dining hall. Head coaching record College Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Richmond
Larry Richmond is a former American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas from 1988 to 1993, compiling a record of 37–25–1. Richmond's 1989 Harding squad won the Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference championship. A native of West Memphis, Arkansas, Richmond played defensive end and linebacker at Harding under head coach John Prock Clifford John Prock (March 13, 1929 – July 17, 2012) was an American football coach. He was the head football coach at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas from 1964 to 1987. He compiled a record of 114–123–7 , retiring as the fifth-winnin ... from 1970 to 1972. Head coaching record College References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American football defensive ends American football linebackers Harding Bisons football coaches Harding Bisons football players High school football coaches in Louisiana High school football coaches in Texas Peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Tribble
Randy Tribble is an American football coach. He was the head football coach at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas from 1994 to 2007, compiling a record of 73–63–1. He was an assistant coach at Harding for 13 years before becoming head coach. A former all-conference defensive back at Harding under coach John Prock Clifford John Prock (March 13, 1929 – July 17, 2012) was an American football coach. He was the head football coach at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas from 1964 to 1987. He compiled a record of 114–123–7 , retiring as the fifth-winnin ... in the 1970s, Tribble was inducted into the Harding Athletics Hall of Fame in 1999. Head coaching record College Notes References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American football defensive backs Harding Bisons football coaches Harding Bisons football players High school football coaches in Arkansas High school football coaches in Texas {{1980s-coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darrell Royal
Darrell K Royal (July 6, 1924 – November 7, 2012) was an All-American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Mississippi State University (1954–1955), the University of Washington (1956), and the University of Texas (1957–1976), compiling a career college football record of 184–60–5. In his 20 seasons at Texas, Royal's teams won three national championships (1963, 1969, and 1970), 11 Southwest Conference titles, and amassed a record of 167–47–5. He won more games than any other coach in Texas Longhorns football history. Royal also coached the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League (CFL) for one season in 1953. He never had a losing season as a head coach for his entire career. Royal was an All-American at the University of Oklahoma, where he played football from 1946 to 1949. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1983. Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas, where the Longhorns play the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Bailey Metcalf
Joe Bailey Metcalf (Oklahoma, August 11, 1901 – Oklahoma, September 7, 1979) was an American football coach who served as head football coach at Southwestern Oklahoma State University from 1952 to 1957. He compiled a record of 32–21–2 for the Bulldogs. As a high school coach before moving into the college ranks, Metcalf had coached Darrell Royal and Ted Owens on the Hollis, Oklahoma Tigers football team. He also coached Owens in basketball, discouraging the future legendary Kansas basketball coach of toying with the jump shot, in favor of the tried and true set shot. After retiring as head coach of the Texas Longhorns, Darrell Royal would mention that even at the end of his coaching career in 1976, he was still using the principles learned from two men; Bud Wilkinson at the University of Oklahoma, and Joe Bailey Metcalf of Hollis High School and Southwestern Oklahoma State. Before Ted Owens played basketball at Oklahoma Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Prock
Clifford John Prock (March 13, 1929 – July 17, 2012) was an American football coach. He was the head football coach at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas from 1964 to 1987. He compiled a record of 114–123–7 , retiring as the fifth-winningest active coach in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) in 1987. A native of Hollis, Oklahoma, Prock was a four-sport star, growing up around other Hollis athletes Darrell Royal (future Texas coach), Ted Owens (future Kansas basketball coach) and Monte Moore (future major league baseball announcer). After playing college football for one semester at Northwestern Oklahoma State, Prock returned home to work for this father and for the county road department. He then joined the National Guard, deployed to Korea and became a platoon first sergeant of Company D, 120th Combat Engineers, using his road grader experience to help build roads and bridges for the allied forces. He then went back to college and played footba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oklahoma Drill
The Oklahoma drill is an American football practice technique used to test players in confined full contact situations. The technique was developed by Oklahoma Sooners coach Bud Wilkinson. Description The drill has several variations. The most common involves two players lined up three yards opposite one another. A corridor is set up typically using three blocking bags on each side of the players lined up top to bottom to create a wall, and the walls are spaced about one yard apart. This creates an area of about three feet by nine feet. The two players, at the sound of the whistle, then run at one another and the drill is over when one of the players is on the ground, or if a ball carrier is involved when he is tackled, or if the ball carrier runs out of bounds. If a player is able to drive the other player out of the corridor, that also ends the drill. In a variation, the ball carrier must keep running until they score a touchdown. Prevalence Many high school and college teams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernie Bierman
Bernard W. Bierman (March 11, 1894 – March 7, 1977) was an American football player and coach of football and basketball. He coached from 1919 to 1950 except for a span during World War II when he served in the U.S. armed forces. Bierman was the head coach at the University of Montana (1919–1921), Mississippi State University (1925–1926), Tulane University (1927–1931), and his alma mater, the University of Minnesota (1932–1941, 1945–1950), compiling a career college football record of 153–65–12. At Minnesota, Bierman's Golden Gophers compiled a 93–35–6 record, won five national championships and seven Big Ten Conference titles, and completed five undefeated seasons. Bierman was also the head basketball coach at Montana (1919–1922), Mississippi State (1925–1927), and Tulane (1928–1930), tallying a career college basketball mark of 89–51. Personal life Bierman grew up in Litchfield, Minnesota and was married to Clara McKenzie Bierman. They had two sons, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Halas
George Stanley Halas Sr. (; February 2, 1895October 31, 1983), nicknamed "Papa Bear" and "Mr. Everything", was an American professional football player, coach, and team owner. He was the founder and owner of the National Football League's Chicago Bears, and served as his own head coach on four occasions. He was also lesser-known as a Major League Baseball player for the New York Yankees. Halas was one of the co-founders of the American Professional Football Association (now the National Football League (NFL)) in 1920, and in 1963 became one of the first 17 inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Halas was the oldest person in NFL history to serve as a head coach, as he was 72 years and 318 days old when he coached the final game of his career in December 1967, until Romeo Crennel 54 years later, who was 73 years and 115 days old when he became the interim head coach of the Houston Texans. Early life and sports career Halas was born in Chicago, Illinois, into a family of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Bears
The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago. The Bears compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) North division. The Bears have won nine NFL Championships, including one Super Bowl, and hold the NFL record for the most enshrinees in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the most retired jersey numbers. The Bears have also recorded the second-most victories of any NFL franchise, only behind the Green Bay Packers. The franchise was founded in Decatur, Illinois, on September 20, 1919 and became professional on September 17, 1920, and moved to Chicago in 1921. It is one of only two remaining franchises from the NFL's founding in 1920, along with the Arizona Cardinals, which was originally also in Chicago. The team played home games at Wrigley Field on Chicago's North Side through the 1970 season; they now play at Soldier Field on the Near South Side, adjacent to Lake Michigan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 NFL Draft
The 1955 NFL season, 1955 National Football League NFL draft, draft was held January 27–28, 1955 at the Warwick New York Hotel, Warwick Hotel in New York City. This was the ninth year that the List of first overall National Football League Draft picks, first overall pick was a bonus pick determined by lottery. With the previous eight winners ineligible from the draw, only the Baltimore Colts, Chicago Cardinals, Green Bay Packers, and Pittsburgh Steelers had an equal chance of winning. The draft lottery was won by Baltimore, who selected quarterback George Shaw (American football), George Shaw. Player selections Round one Round two Round three Round four Round five Round six Round seven Round eight Round nine Round ten Round eleven Round twelve Round thirteen Round fourteen Round fifteen Round sixteen Round seventeen Round eighteen Round nineteen Round twenty Round twenty-one Round twenty-two Round twenty-three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
