Carroll Widdoes
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born | 1903 Philippines |
| Died | September 22, 1971 Lake Worth, Florida |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1941–1943 | Ohio State (assistant) |
| 1944–1945 | Ohio State |
| 1946–1948 | Ohio State (assistant) |
| 1949–1957 | Ohio |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1940–1961 | Ohio |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 58–38–5 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 1 National (1944) 1 Big Ten (1944) 1 MAC (1953) |
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| Awards | |
| AFCA Coach of the Year (1944) | |
Carroll C. Widdoes (1903 – September 22, 1971) was an American football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head coach at Ohio State University (1944–1945) and Ohio University (1949–1957), compiling a career record of 58–38–5. Widdoes's 1944 Ohio State team went undefeated and was named a national champion by the National Championship Foundation and the Sagarin Ratings.
Widdoes was the son of the Rev. and Mrs. Howard W. Widdoes. The Widdoes were missionaries to the Philippines for the United Brethren Church, a predecessor denomination of the United Methodist Church, and Carroll was born there in 1903. Carroll and his brothers and sister came to live at Otterbein in 1916.
After graduating from Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio in 1926, Widdoes was an assistant football coach under Paul Brown at Massillon Washington High School in Massillon, Ohio. He followed Brown to Ohio State University as an assistant and assumed the head coaching job in 1944 when Brown joined the Navy, leading the Buckeyes to an undefeated season and a share of the national championship. That season he coached Ohio State's first Heisman Trophy winner, Les Horvath. In two seasons at Ohio State, Widdoes posted a 16–2 record. After the 1945 season, Widdoes left Ohio State, choosing his offensive coordinator, Paul Bixler, to be his successor.
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