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Charter Inductee KSHOF 1961
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Earned 16 college athletic letters
at Kansas State Normal (Emporia
State)
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Played footbll, basketball, track,
baseball, gymnastics, and boxing
in college
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One of irst coaches to use forward
pass, unbalanced line, and huddle
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Head football and rack and field
coach at KU
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Coached five world record holders
in track
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His 1926 football team at ESU was
undefeated ad allowed only 3 points
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Three-sport standou at Beulah High
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(1887
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Inducted
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Homer Woodson "Bill"
Hargiss earned 16 collegiate athletic lettersin
four years at Kansas tate Normal (Emporia
State University), before becoming one of
the most innovative coaches in college football
history. He
was one of the first coaches in the United
States to use the forward pass, shift to
an unbalanced line and use the T-formation
and huddle while at College of Emporia.
Hargiss was the head football coach at the
University of Kansas for five years and
the track and field coach for 10 years.
He coached Oregon State and Kansas State
Normal to four football and seven track
championships and is perhaps the only man
to coach five world record-holders - John
Kuck, Glenn Cunningham, Jim Bausch, Clyde
Coffman and Peter Mehringer. His 1926 football
team at Kansas State Normal was unbeaten
in seven games and allowed just three points
the entire season. Hargiss participated
in football, basketball, track and field,
baseball, gymnastics and boxing at Kansas
State Normal and was named captain five
times. He was a three-sport standout at
Beulah (KS) High School where he led the
football team to an undefeated season. Inducted
into the NAIA Track and Field Hall of Fame.
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