Ernest Bearg

Ernest Bearg
Biographical details
Bearg from 1927 Cornhusker
Sport(s)	Football, basketball
Born	(1893-07-20)July 20, 1893
Died	August 1971 (aged 78)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1918–1919	Washburn
?	Illinois (assistant)
1925–1928	Nebraska
1929–1935	Washburn
Basketball
1925–1926	Nebraska
Head coaching record
Overall	69–40–7 (football) 8–10 (basketball)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
1 Big Six (1928)

Ernest E. Bearg (July 20, 1893 – August 1971) was an American football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at Washburn University from 1918 to 1919 and again from 1929 to 1935 and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln from 1925 to 1928, compiling a career college football record of 69–40–7. Bearg also spent one year as Nebraska's men's basketball coach (1925–1926) and posted an 8–10 mark. Before coming to Nebraska, he also served as an assistant coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign under Robert Zuppke

Early life

Bearg was a 1916 graduate of Washburn University where he was a member of the Kansas Beta Chapter of Phi Delta Theta. During his senior year at Washburn, he was elected senior class president.^[1]

Coaching career

Washburn

Bearg was the 15th and then again the 20th head football coach for the Washburn Ichabods. He first held the position for two seasons in 1918 and 1919 and again for seven more seasons from 1929 until 1935. Bearg's overall record at Washburn was 46 wins, 33 losses and 4 ties.

After coaching for four seasons at Nebraska, Bearg led the Ichabods to a 35–31 record and the 1931 Central Conference championship. Two of his team's three losses during the 1931 season came to the Kansas and Kansas State.

Nebraska

Under Bearg's leadership, Nebraska won its first Big Six Conference title in 1928 when his team went 7–1–1. The Cornhuskers were conference runners-up in 1926 and 1927. According to Nebraska's official athletics website, Bearg fielded powerful team during his four years at the helm but "fans criticized him for not using strategy and deception, which eventually led to his resignation."^[2] After four seasons in Lincoln, Bearg was replaced by future College Football Hall of Fame coach, Dana X. Bible.^[3]

Honors

Bearg was inducted into the Washburn Athletics Hall of Fame in 1973–74, and earned a spot as a coach in the Nebraska Football Hall of Fame in 1988.

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Nebraska Cornhuskers (Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association/Big Six Conference) (1925–1928)
1925	Nebraska	4–2–2	2–2–1	5th
1926	Nebraska	6–2	5–1	2nd
1927	Nebraska	6–2	4–1	2nd
1928	Nebraska	7–1–1	5–0	1st
Nebraska:		23–7–3	16–4–1
Total:		23–7–3
National championship Conference title Conference division title

References

External links

Nebraska profile
Ernest Bearg at the College Football Data Warehouse
Ernest Bearg at College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com

Washburn Ichabods head football coaches

Unknown (1891–1893)
W. M. Gains (1894)
No team (1895)
W. Griffith (1896)
Paul Coldren (1897–1898)
William Melford (1899)
Bennie Owen (1900)
Lawrence Banks (1901)
H. Ward Page (1902)
A. R. Kennedy (1903)
John H. Outland (1904–1905)
Garfield Weede (1906–1908)
Robert Stewart (1909–1910)
William L. Driver (1911–1912)
Glen Gray (1913–1915)
A. R. Kennedy (1916–1917)
Ernest Bearg (1918–1919)
Dwight Ream (1920–1921)
Glenn D. Vosburg (1922)
George Woodward (1923–1926)
Roy Wynne (1927–1928)
Ernest Bearg (1929–1935)
Elmer Holm (1936–1941)
Bob Raugh (1942–1943)
Charles Errickson (1944)
Lew Lane (1945)
Dick Godlove (1946–1958)
Ralph Brown (1959–1961)
Ellis Rainsberger (1962–1964)
Ed Linta (1965–1966)
Bill Schaake (1967–1968)
Harold Elliott (1969–1970)
Bob Noblitt (1971–1973)
Larry Elliott (1974–1978)
Gary Hampton (1979–1980)
Glenn Jagodzinske (1981–1982)
George Tardiff (1983–1984)
Larry Elliott (1984–1989)
Dennis Caryl (1990–1993)
Andy Williams (1993)
Tony DeMeo (1994–2001)
Craig Schurig (2002– )

Nebraska Cornhuskers head football coaches

Langdon Frothingham (1890)
Theron Lyman (1891)
J. S. Williams (1892)
Frank Crawford (1893–1894)
Charles Thomas (1895)
Eddie N. Robinson (1896–1897)
Fielding H. Yost (1898)
Alonzo Edwin Branch (1899)
Walter C. Booth (1900–1905)
Amos Foster (1906)
William C. "King" Cole (1907–1910)
Ewald O. Stiehm (1911–1915)
E. J. Stewart (1916–1917)
William G. Kline (1918)
Henry Schulte (1919–1920)
Fred Dawson (1921–1924)
Ernest Bearg (1925–1928)
Dana X. Bible (1929–1936)
Biff Jones (1937–1941)
Glenn Presnell (1942)
Adolph J. Lewandowski (1943–1944)
George Clark (1945)
Bernie Masterson (1946–1947)
George Clark (1948)
Bill Glassford (1949–1955)
Pete Elliott (1956)
Bill Jennings (1957–1961)
Bob Devaney (1962–1972)
Tom Osborne (1973–1997)
Frank Solich (1998–2003)
Bo Pelini # (2003)
Bill Callahan (2004–2007)
Bo Pelini (2008–2014)
Barney Cotton # (2014)
Mike Riley (2015– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim coach.

Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball head coaches

Frank Lehmer (1897–1899)
T. P. Hewitt (1900)
E. Berry (1901)
Fred Morrell (1902)
Walter Hiltner (1902–1903)
R. G. Clapp (1904–1909)
T. J. Hewitt (1910)
Osmond F. Field (1911)
Ewald O. Stiehm (1912–1915)
Sam Waugh (1916)
E. J. Stewart (1917–1919)
Paul J. Schissler (1919–1921)
Owen A. Frank (1922–1923)
William G. Kline (1924–1925)
Ernest Bearg (1925–1926)
Charlie T. Black (1926–1932)
William Browne (1932–1940)
Adolph J. Lewandowski (1940–1945)
L. F. Klein (1945–1946)
Harry Good (1946–1954)
Jerry Bush (1954–1963)
Joe Cipriano (1963–1980)
Moe Iba (1980–1986)
Danny Nee (1986–2000)
Barry Collier (2000–2006)
Doc Sadler (2006–2012)
Tim Miles (2012– )

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