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{{Short description|American baseball player (1881–1968)}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Ralph Glaze
| image = Ralph Glaze.jpg
| alt = 
| caption = Glaze in 1908
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1881|3|13}}
| birth_place = [[Denver|Denver, Colorado]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1968|10|31|1881|3|13}}
| death_place = [[Atascadero, California]], U.S.
| alma_mater = 
| player_sport1 = Football
| player_years2 = 1901
| player_team2 = [[Colorado Buffaloes football|Colorado]]
| player_years3 = 1903–1905
| player_team3 = [[Dartmouth Big Green football|Dartmouth]]
| player_sport4 = Baseball
| player_years5 = 1903–1906
| player_team5 = [[Dartmouth Big Green baseball|Dartmouth]]
| player_years6 = 1906–1908
| player_team6 = [[Boston Red Sox|Boston Americans / Red Sox]]
| player_years7 = 1908
| player_team7 = [[Providence Grays (minor league)|Providence Grays]]
| player_years8 = 1909–1910
| player_team8 = [[Indianapolis Indians]]
| player_years9 = 1913
| player_team9 = Beaumont Oilers
| player_years10 = 1914
| player_team10 = Topeka Jayhawks
| player_positions = [[End (American football)|End]] (football)<br>[[Pitcher]] (baseball)
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1908–1909
| coach_team2 = [[Rochester Yellowjackets football|Rochester (NY)]]
| coach_years3 = 1910–1912
| coach_team3 = [[Baylor Bears football|Baylor]]
| coach_years4 = 1914–1915
| coach_team4 = [[USC Trojans football|USC]]
| coach_years5 = 1916
| coach_team5 = [[Drake Bulldogs football|Drake]]
| coach_years6 = 1917–1918
| coach_team6 = [[Northern Colorado Bears football|Colorado State Teachers]]
| coach_years7 = 1919–1920
| coach_team7 = [[Colorado Mines Orediggers football|Colorado Mines]]
| coach_years8 = 1921–1923
| coach_team8 = [[Lake Forest Foresters football|Lake Forest]]
| coach_years9 = 1924–1925
| coach_team9 = [[St. Viator Irish football|St. Viator]]
| coach_sport10 = Basketball
| coach_years11 = 1910–1913
| coach_team11 = [[Baylor Bears basketball|Baylor]]
| coach_years12 = 1914–1916
| coach_team12 = [[USC Trojans men's basketball|USC]]
| coach_years13 = 1916–1917
| coach_team13 = [[Drake Bulldogs men's basketball|Drake]]
| coach_years14 = 1917–1919
| coach_team14 = [[Northern Colorado Bears men's basketball|Colorado State Teachers]]
| coach_years15 = 1919–1921
| coach_team15 = [[Colorado Mines Orediggers men's basketball|Colorado Mines]]
| coach_years16 = 1921–1924
| coach_team16 = [[Lake Forest Foresters men's basketball|Lake Forest]]
| coach_sport17 = Baseball
| coach_years18 = 1910–1913
| coach_team18 = [[Baylor Bears baseball|Baylor]]
| coach_years19 = 1913
| coach_team19 = Beaumont Oilers
| coach_years20 = 1915
| coach_team20 = [[USC Trojans baseball|USC]]
| coach_years21 = 1922
| coach_team21 = [[Colorado Mines Orediggers baseball|Colorado Mines]]
| coach_sport22 = Track
| coach_years23 = 1915
| coach_team23 = [[USC Trojans track and field|USC]]
| overall_record = 49–68–15 (college football)<br>66–90 (college basketball)<br>67–43 (college baseball)
| bowl_record = 
| tournament_record = 
| championships = 
| awards =
* Consensus [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] ([[1905 College Football All-America Team|1905]])
* Second-team All-American ([[1904 College Football All-America Team|1904]]) 
| coaching_records = 
}}
{{Infobox baseball biography
| name       =Ralph Glaze
| image      = 
| caption    = 
| position   = [[Pitcher]]
| birth_date  = {{Birth date|1881|3|13}}
| birth_place = [[Denver, Colorado]]
| death_date  = {{death date and age|1968|10|31|1881|3|13}}
| death_place = [[Atascadero, California]]
| bats       = Right
| throws     = Right
|debutleague = MLB
| debutdate  = June 1
| debutyear  = 1906
| debutteam  = [[Boston Americans]]
|finalleague = MLB
| finaldate  = June 15
| finalyear  = 1908
| finalteam  = [[Boston Red Sox]]
|statleague = MLB
| stat1label = [[Win–loss record (pitching)|Win–loss record]]
| stat1value = 15–21
| stat2label = [[Earned run average]]
| stat2value = 2.89
| stat3label = [[Strikeout]]s
| stat3value = 137
| teams      = 
* [[Boston Red Sox|Boston Americans/Red Sox]] (1906–1908)
}}
'''Daniel Ralph Glaze''' (March 13, 1881 – October 31, 1968) was an American sportsman and coach who played as a right-handed [[pitcher]] in [[Major League Baseball]], and later became a [[college football|football]] and baseball coach and administrator at several colleges.

==Early life and playing career==
Glaze was born in [[Denver, Colorado]], and was recruited by [[Dartmouth College]] after displaying his skill in two sports. He played football at the [[University of Colorado]] in the 1901 season under coach [[Fred Folsom]], a Dartmouth alumnus who became that school's coach in 1903. Glaze enrolled at Dartmouth in 1902, being followed there by his younger brother, John.  Under Folsom, he played a notable role in the school's first-ever football victory over [[Harvard Crimson football|Harvard]] in 1903, a game in which Harvard dedicated its [[Harvard Stadium|new stadium]]. In 1905, Glaze was named an [[1905 College Football All-America Team|All-American]] as an [[End (American football)|end]] by [[Walter Camp]], even though at 5'8" and 153 pounds he was the smallest player on Dartmouth's team that year. Glaze also played baseball at Dartmouth, and pitched a [[no-hitter]] against [[Columbia Lions baseball|Columbia]].

During summers, Glaze played semi-pro ball in Colorado, using the assumed name "Ralph Pearce" to protect his college eligibility.<ref>William A. Young. John Tortes ‘Chief’ Meyers:  A Baseball Biography.  Jefferson, North Carolina:  McFarland, 2012, p. 16.</ref> Among the Colorado teams Glaze played for was the "Big Six" team in Trinidad, where he pitched in 1905.<ref>"Big Six Nine to Play Garnitas at Trinidad." Denver (CO) Daily News, August 14, 1906, p. 8.</ref>  In 1905 he met an opposing [[catcher]] named [[Chief Meyers|John Tortes]], a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]], and encouraged him to apply to Dartmouth due to the school's charter making specific provisions for the education of Native Americans. As Tortes had dropped out of school, several Dartmouth alumni conspired to create a false background for him, and he enrolled until the ruse was discovered some time after his first semester. Nonetheless, the catcher attracted notice from various baseball figures, and he went on to a 9-year major league career from 1909 to 1917 under the name Chief Meyers; he maintained a strong affinity to Dartmouth, and credited Glaze with his start in the sport.

After graduating in [[1906 in baseball|1906]], Glaze signed with the Boston Americans, as the press referred to them in 1906.<ref>Tim Murnane, "Mercer College Boys Do Some Good Hitting."  Boston Globe, March 14, 1906, p. 8.</ref> The team would later be known as the [[Boston Red Sox]]. Over three years, Glaze posted a record of 15 [[win (baseball)|wins]] against 21 losses, with 137 [[strikeout]]s and a 2.89 [[earned run average]] in 61 games and 340 [[innings pitched]]. A career highlight took place on August 31 of his rookie year, when he outdueled [[Philadelphia Athletics]] star pitcher [[Rube Waddell]]. Glaze began coaching in the offseasons, starting as a 1906 football assistant at Dartmouth; he also helped coach their baseball team in 1908. He left the Red Sox following the [[1908 in baseball|1908]] season, and spent the next several years with a number of minor league teams.

==Coaching career==
In 1910, Glaze became the football coach at [[Baylor University]].  His teams had a record of 12–10–3 from 1910 through 1912, including a 6–1-1 mark in his first year. Glaze became the head coach of the [[University of Southern California]]'s [[USC Trojans football|football team]] for the 1914 and 1915 seasons, compiling a 7–7 record.  He was the first coach after USC's teams began to be known as the Trojans. Before his arrival, USC had not played football for the previous three seasons; like many universities at the time, the school had switched to [[rugby football|rugby]] and did not field football teams during the 1911 through 1913 seasons. After competing primarily against southern California teams throughout its history, USC was now beginning to include major colleges from other areas on its schedule.  The 1914 season finale at [[Oregon State Beavers football|Oregon State]] was the first against a major college opponent since a 1905 loss at [[Stanford Cardinal football|Stanford]], and was also USC's first game ever outside of California. The highlight of Glaze's brief tenure occurred the following year with the inauguration of the long-standing series with [[California Golden Bears football|California]]. At the time, Cal was considered the traditionally dominant team of West Coast football, and Glaze managed to lead USC to a 28–10 road victory before falling to Cal, 23–21, at home later the same season; however, it was Cal's first year resuming football after having switched to rugby for the previous nine seasons.

Glaze was succeeded in 1916 by [[Dean Cromwell]], who was USC's football coach before the switch to rugby. Glaze also coached the [[USC Trojans baseball|Trojans baseball]] team, represented by the university's [[University of Southern California Law School|law school]], in the 1915 season to a 5–10 record, and guided the USC [[Track and field|track]] team the same spring.  He also coached the [[USC Trojans men's basketball|USC basketball]] team in 1915–16, with a record of 8–21 against exclusively southern California competition.

Glaze became football coach at [[Drake University]] in 1916, with a record of 3–10–2, and then became football coach at Colorado State Teachers College (now the [[University of Northern Colorado]]) in 1917–18 as the school resumed football after 11 years, with a record of 2–6. He coached football at the [[Colorado School of Mines]] in 1919–20, with a record of 0–10–2. From 1921 to 1924 he coached at [[Lake Forest College]], leading the football team to a 10–12–3 record from 1921 to 1923, and the basketball team to an 11–32 mark from 1921 to 1924.

During his career, Glaze also coached at the [[University of Rochester]], [[Texas Christian University]] and [[St. Viator College]].

==Marriage, later life, and death==
Glaze married Evaline Leavitt in 1907; she died in 1927, the year he retired from coaching to go into business in Denver. In 1930, he became superintendent of the [[Boston and Maine Railroad]]'s terminal in [[Charlestown, Massachusetts]], and he married Winifred Bonar Demuth the same year. In 1946 the couple retired to California, moving to [[Cambria, California]] in 1951. In his later years, Glaze struck up a friendship with former [[American League]] outfielder [[Sam Crawford]], who had a cottage several miles away; coincidentally, Crawford had been one of Glaze's successors as USC's baseball coach. Glaze stayed fit, walking three to five miles daily with his dogs when he was in his 80s. He died at age 86 in [[Atascadero, California]].<ref> https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/glazera01.shtml </ref>

==Head coaching record==
===College football===
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 | name      = [[Rochester Yellowjackets football|Rochester Yellowjackets]]
 | conf      = Independent
 | startyear = 1908
 | endyear   = 1909
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 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1908 college football season|1908]]
 | name         = Rochester
 | overall      = 7–1–1
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 | year         = [[1909 college football season|1909]]
 | name         = Rochester
 | overall      = 4–3–1
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 | name       = Rochester
 | overall    = 11–4–2
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 | name      = [[Baylor Bears football|Baylor]]
 | conf      = Independent
 | startyear = 1910
 | endyear   = 1912
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 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1910 college football season|1910]]
 | name         = [[1910 Baylor football team|Baylor]]
 | overall      = 6–1–1
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
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 | year         = [[1911 college football season|1911]]
 | name         = [[1911 Baylor football team|Baylor]]
 | overall      = 2–4–2
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 | year         = [[1912 college football season|1912]]
 | name         = [[1912 Baylor football team|Baylor]]
 | overall      = 3–5
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 | name       = Baylor
 | overall    = 11–10–3
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[USC Trojans football|USC Trojans]]
 | conf      = Independent
 | startyear = 1914
 | endyear   = 1915
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 | year         = [[1914 college football season|1914]]
 | name         = [[1914 USC Trojans football team|USC]]
 | overall      = 4–3
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 | year         = [[1915 college football season|1915]]
 | name         = [[1915 USC Trojans football team|USC]]
 | overall      = 3–4
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 | ranking2     = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = USC
 | overall    = 7–7
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Drake Bulldogs football|Drake Bulldogs]]
 | conf      = [[Big Eight Conference|Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association]]
 | startyear = 1916
 | endyear   = single
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 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1916 college football season|1916]]
 | name         = Drake
 | overall      = 3–5
 | conference   = 1–3
 | confstanding = 6th
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 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1917 college football season|1917]]
 | name         = Drake
 | overall      = 0–5–2
 | conference   = 0–3
 | confstanding = 7th
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 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Drake
 | overall    = 3–10–2
 | confrecord = 1–6
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Northern Colorado Bears football|Colorado State Teachers]]
 | conf      = Independent
 | startyear = 1917
 | endyear   = 1918
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1917 college football season|1917]]
 | name         = Colorado State Teachers
 | overall      = 0–5
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1918 college football season|1918]]
 | name         = Colorado State Teachers
 | overall      = 2–1
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 | ranking      = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Colorado State Teachers
 | overall    = 2–6
 | confrecord = 
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Colorado Mines Orediggers football|Colorado Mines Orediggers]]
 | conf      = [[Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference|Rocky Mountain Conference]]
 | startyear = 1919
 | endyear   = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1919 college football season|1919]]
 | name         = Colorado Mines
 | overall      = 0–4–2
 | conference   = 0–4–1
 | confstanding = T–7th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1920 college football season|1920]]
 | name         = Colorado Mines
 | overall      = 0–6
 | conference   = 0–6
 | confstanding = 8th
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 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Colorado Mines
 | overall    = 0–10–2
 | confrecord = 0–10–1
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Lake Forest Foresters football|Lake Forest Foresters]]
 | conf      = [[Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference|Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference]]
 | startyear = 1921
 | endyear   = 1923
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1921 college football season|1921]]
 | name         = Lake Forest
 | overall      = 4–4
 | conference   = 
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 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1922 college football season|1922]]
 | name         = Lake Forest
 | overall      = 3–3–2
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 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1923 college football season|1923]]
 | name         = Lake Forest
 | overall      = 2–6–1
 | conference   = 1–3
 | confstanding = T–17th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Lake Forest
 | overall    = 9–13–3
 | confrecord = 
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[St. Viator Irish football|St. Viator Irish]]
 | conf      = [[Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference|Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference]]
 | startyear = 1924
 | endyear   = 1925
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1924 college football season|1924]]
 | name         = St. Viator
 | overall      = 1–5–2
 | conference   = 1–2
 | confstanding = T–16th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1925 college football season|1925]]
 | name         = St. Viator
 | overall      = 5–3–1
 | conference   = 3–2
 | confstanding = T–7th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = St. Viator
 | overall    = 6–8–3
 | confrecord = 4–4
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
 | overall  = 49–68–15
 | bowls    = no
 | poll     = no
 | polltype = 
 | legend   = no
}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* {{cite book |last=McGreal |first=Jim |editor=Kachline, Clifford|title=The Baseball Research Journal |edition=15th |year=1986 |publisher=Society for American Baseball Research |location=Cooperstown, New York |isbn=0-910137-26-9 |issn=0734-6891 |pages=79–81 |chapter=They Called Him 'Pitcher'}}

==External links==
* {{Baseballstats|br=g/glazera01|brm=glaze-001dan}}

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