Hal Mefford

Hal Mefford
Biographical details
Sport(s)	Football, basketball
Born	c. 1882
Died	December 24, 1932 (aged 50) Palestine, Illinois
Playing career
Football
1904–1906	Chicago
Position(s)	End, halfback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1916	Rose Polytechnic
1917	Kendall
Basketball
1917–1918	Kendall
Head coaching record
Overall	2–14–1 (football) 1–5 (basketball)

Hal Mefford (c. 1882 – December 24, 1932) was an American football player, coach of football and basketball, and college athletics administrator. He played for the Chicago Maroons football team in 1905 and 1906 and was the first athletic director of the Rose Polytechnic Institute in Terre Haute, Indiana.^[1] He was the head football coach for the Kendall Orange and Black football team during the 1917 season.^[2] In his only season as the head coach, the Orange and Black compiled a 0–8–1 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 221 to 61.^[3]^[4]

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall
Rose Polytechnic Fightin' Engineers () (1916)
1916	Rose Polytechnic	2–6
Rose Polytechnic:		2–6
Kendall Orange and Black (Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference) (1917)
1917	Kendall	0–8–1
Kendall:		0–8–1
Total:		2–14–1

↑ "Hal Mefford Dies". The Jacksonville (IL) Daily Journal. December 25, 1932. p. 4.
↑ "Hal Medford". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
↑ "Tulsa Yearly Results (1915–1919)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
↑ "1917 Tulsa Golden Hurricane Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 2, 2016.

Tulsa Golden Hurricane head football coaches

Norman Leard (1895–1897) Fred Taylor (1898–1899) Unknown (1900–1902) No team (1903–1904) Unknown (1905) No team (1906–1907) Sam P. McBirney (1908) Unknown (1909–1910) No team (1911) Harvey L. Allen (1912) George "Red" Evans (1913) Sam P. McBirney (1914–1916) Hal Mefford (1917) Arthur Smith (1918) Francis Schmidt (1919–1921) Howard Acher (1922–1924) Gus Henderson (1925–1935) Vic Hurt (1936–1938) Chet Benefiel (1939–1940) Henry Frnka (1941–1945) Buddy Brothers (1946–1952) Bernie Witucki (1953–1954) Bobby Dobbs (1955–1960) Glenn Dobbs (1961–1968) Vince Carillot (1969) Claude "Hoot" Gibson (1970–1972) F. A. Dry (1972–1976) John Cooper (1977–1984) Don Morton (1985–1986) George Henshaw (1987) David Rader (1988–1999) Pat Henderson # (1999) Keith Burns (2000–2002) Steve Kragthorpe (2003–2006) Todd Graham (2007–2010) Bill Blankenship (2011–2014) Philip Montgomery (2015– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

W. R. Bergen (1907–1909)
No team (1909–1913)
Harvey Allen (1913–1914)
Forest Rees (1914–1915)
Francis Schmidt (1915–1917)
Hal Mefford (1917–1918)
Francis Schmidt (1918–1922)
Howard Acher (1922–1925)
J. B. Miller (1925–1930)
Oliver Hodge (1930–1932)
Chet Benefiel (1932–1939)
Tex Ryon (1939–1940)
Jack Sterrett (1940–1941)
Tex Ryon (1941–1942)
Mike Milligan (1942–1943)
Woody West (1943–1944)
Paul Alyea (1944–1945)
Don Shields (1945–1947)
John Garrison (1947–1949)
Clarence Iba (1949–1960)
Joe Swank (1960–1968)
Ken Hayes (1968–1975)
Jim King (1975–1980)
Bill Franey # (1980)
Nolan Richardson (1980–1985)
J. D. Barnett (1985–1991)
Tubby Smith (1991–1995)
Steve Robinson (1995–1997)
Bill Self (1997–2000)
Buzz Peterson (2000–2001)
John Phillips (2001–2004)
Pooh Williamson # (2004–2005)
Doug Wojcik (2005–2012)
Danny Manning (2012–2014)
Frank Haith (2014– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

1905 Chicago Maroons football—national champions

Art Badenoch Hugo Bezdek Mark Catlin, Sr. Leo DeTray Walter Eckersall Jesse Harper Hal Mefford Ed Parry Clarence W. Russell Mysterious Walker Head coach: Amos Alonzo Stagg Assistant coach: Frederick A. Speik

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