Vernon Gale
American football coach
Biographical details | |
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Born | c. 1929 Wyoming, U.S. |
Died | (1989-02-07)February 7, 1989 |
Playing career | |
Football | |
1949–1950 | Wyoming |
Position(s) | Halfback |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1953 | Wyoming (assistant) |
1954–1959 | Valley City State |
1960–1964 | Iowa State (assistant) |
1965–1971 | Wayne State (MI) |
Baseball | |
1955–1959 | Valley City State |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 51–44–5 (football) 18–24–2 (baseball) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
2 NDIC (1954, 1958) | |
Vernon K. Gale (c. 1929 – February 7, 1989) was an American football player and college football and baseball coach.[1] He served as the head football coach (1954–1959) and head baseball coach (1955–1959) at Valley City State University in Valley City, North Dakota.[citation needed] After serving as an assistant football coach at Iowa State University, he was lured to the head football coaching position at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where he stayed from 1965 to 1971.[2]
Head coaching record
Football
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Valley City State Vikings (North Dakota Intercollegiate Conference) (1954–1959) | |||||||||
1954 | Valley City State | 7–1 | 6–0 | T–1st | |||||
1955 | Valley City State | 1–5 | 1–5 | T–8th | |||||
1956 | Valley City State | 1–4–3 | 1–2–3 | 7th | |||||
1957 | Valley City State | 4–2–1 | 4–1–1 | 3rd | |||||
1958 | Valley City State | 6–1 | 6–1 | T–1st | |||||
1959 | Valley City State | 4–3 | 3–3 | 4th | |||||
Valley City State: | 23–16–4 | 21–12–4 | |||||||
Wayne State Tartars (Presidents' Athletic Conference) (1965) | |||||||||
1965 | Wayne State | 3–4–1 | 3–2–1 | 4th | |||||
Wayne State Tartars (NCAA College Division independent) (1966–1971) | |||||||||
1966 | Wayne State | 2–6 | |||||||
1967 | Wayne State | 6–2 | |||||||
1968 | Wayne State | 3–6 | |||||||
1969 | Wayne State | 4–4 | |||||||
1970 | Wayne State | 6–2 | |||||||
1971 | Wayne State | 4–4 | |||||||
Wayne State: | 28–28–1 | 3–2–1 | |||||||
Total: | 51–44–5 | ||||||||
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth |
References
- ^ "Vernon Gale". University of Wyoming. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
- ^ "Gale named coach at Wayne". Detroit Free Press. March 16, 1965. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
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Valley City State Vikings head football coaches
- Henry W. Lever (1909)
- No team (1910)
- John W. Redewald (1911–1912)
- No team (1913–1915)
- Leonard J. Call (1916)
- Lawrence H. Purdy (1917)
- No team (1918)
- Louis D. Rhodes (1919–1921)
- Laurence G. Hurst (1922–1924)
- James Morrison (1925–1936)
- Roy McLeod (1937–1942)
- No team (1943)
- Bill May (1944)
- No team (1945)
- Roy DeGreef (1946)
- Howard Bliss (1947)
- Bill Richter (1948–1950)
- Robert Nicholls (1951)
- Bill Richter (1952–1953)
- Vernon Gale (1954–1959)
- Al Evans (1960–1961)
- Dick Koppenhaver (1962–1964)
- Millard Jurovich (1965)
- Harold Drescher (1966–1970)
- Pete Nyhus (1971–1973)
- Jim Dew (1974–1993)
- Steve LeGrand (1994–1996)
- Dennis McCulloch (1997– )