Lewie Hardage
Hardage at Oklahoma
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| Sport(s) | Football, baseball |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
February 11, 1891 Madison, Alabama |
| Died | August 29, 1973 (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 |
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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.
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