Bob Evans (coach)
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 16, 1889 Colorado |
| 1919–1920 | Stanford |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 11–10–1 (football) 30–8 (basketball) 18–17 (baseball) |
Melbourne Covell "Bob" Evans (November 16, 1889 – August 29, 1964) was an
University of Colorado at Boulder in 1916 and 1917 and at Stanford University in 1919, compiling a career college football record of 11–10–1. Evans was also the head basketball coach at Colorado (1917–1918) and Stanford (1918–1920), tallying a career college basketball mark of 30–8, and the head baseball coach at Colorado (1918) and Stanford (1919–1920), amassing a career college baseball record of 18–17. He was also a football official and worked a number of Rose Bowls.[1]
Evans later worked as a grain broker for Evan & Breckenridge in San Francisco. He died on August 29, 1964, at Mills Memorial Hospital in San Mateo, California.[2]
Head coaching record
Football
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado Silver and Gold (Rocky Mountain Conference) (1916–1917) | |||||||||
| 1916 | Colorado | 1–5–1 | 1–5 | 7th | |||||
| 1917 | Colorado | 6–2 | 4–2 | 3rd | |||||
| Colorado: | 7–7–1 | 5–7 | |||||||
| Stanford (Pacific Coast Conference) (1919) | |||||||||
| 1919 | Stanford | 4–3 | 1–1 | T–3rd | |||||
| Stanford: | 4–3 | 1–1 | |||||||
| Total: | 11–10–1 | ||||||||
References
- ^ "Nebraska Words Indoors; Three Feet of Snow Cover Field --Squad Leaves Thursday" (PDF). The New York Times. United Press. December 17, 1940. Retrieved November 22, 2010.
- Newspapers.com.
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