His memory will live long
Editorial by Oscar Stauffer

     Homer W. Hargiss, who died in Lawrence Sunday , at 91, coached winning football and track teams and trained outstanding athletes at the University of Kansas and two Kansas colleges.
     At Kansas State Normal, Emporia, now Emporia State University, where he was graduated in 1909, "Bill" Hargiss captained football, track and basketball teams, played baseball, boxed and was a member of the gymnastics team.
     He later coached at College of Emporia three years, at Emporia State College seven years and at KU for 16 years.
     At Emporia State, his phenomenal 1926 football team won the Kansas Conference title, unbeaten, untied and with its goal line uncrossed.
     He was head football coach at KU from 1928 to 1932, and was football scout, freshman coach and head track coach until 1943, when he went overseas in World War II, as an armed services recreational director.
     At C of E, he coached Arthur Schabinger, outstanding quarterback; at Emporia State, John Kuck, shotput recordholder; and at KU, miler Glenn Cunningham, and All-American football player and decathlon record-holder Jim Bausch. His picture hangs with theirs in Kansas' Athletic Hall of Fame, of which Hargiss is a charter member.
     Topekans knew Bill Hargiss as a real estate salesman after World War II, and as executive secretary for 10 years of the State Athletic Commission. After his wife's death, he made his home here and at Lawrence with a daughter, Dr. Genevieve Hargiss, music education professor at KU.
     Hargiss, a skilled and imaginative coach, is credited with inventing the football huddle. He was a warmhearted man, who, through his coaching ability and interest in young people made a real contribution to Kansas athletic history.