Lew Hardage

Lewie Hardage

Hardage at Oklahoma
Sport(s)	Football, baseball
Biographical details
Born	(1891-02-11)February 11, 1891 Madison, Alabama
Died	August 29, 1973(1973-08-29) (aged 82) Melrose, Florida
Playing career
1908–1909	Auburn
1911–1912	Vanderbilt
Position(s)	Halfback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1913	Mercer
1915–1917	McCallie School (TN)
1921	Gordon Military College
1922–1931	Vanderbilt (backfield)
1932–1934	Oklahoma
1935	Furman (backfield)
1936–1938	Florida (backfield)
Baseball
1937–1939	Florida
Head coaching record
Overall	13–17–5 (college football) 35–24–1 (college baseball)
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
Third-team All-American (1912) 4x All-Southern (1908, 1909, 1911, 1912) 1912 All-time Vandy 2nd team Ranked by coach Dan McGugin as one of his six best players

Lewis Woolford "Lewie" Hardage (February 11, 1891 – August 29, 1973) was an American college football player and college football and baseball coach. Hardage was an All-Southern halfback every year he played: 1908, 1909, 1911, and 1912—the first two for Mike Donahue's Auburn Tigers of Auburn University and the latter two for Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University. Fuzzy Woodruff labeled him the South's "fastest back of the 1910-1920 decade".

He served as the head football coach at Mercer University in 1913 and at the University of Oklahoma from 1932 to 1934, compiling a career college football coaching record of 13–17–5. Hardage was later the head baseball coach at the University of Florida from 1937 to 1939, tallying a mark of 35–24–1.

Hardage was born on February 11, 1891 in Madison, Alabama to Monroe L., a liquor dealer, and Katherine Hardage. His father Monroe operated the Hardage Brother's Saloon. Hardage was a native of Decatur.

Hardage was a prominent halfback at two different schools: Auburn and Vanderbilt, and was selected All-Southern every year in which he played. He was inducted into the Morgan County Sports Hall of Fame in 2016.