Frank Bridges

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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:For multi Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Frank Bogart Bridges Sr. (July 4, 1890 – June 10, 1970) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Baylor University from 1920 to 1925, Simmons University—now known as Hardin–Simmons University—from 1927 to 1929, and St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas from 1935 to 1939. Bridges was also the head basketball coach at Baylor from 1920 to 1926, at Simmons from 1927 to 1929, and at St. Mary's from 1935 to 1939, tallying a career college basketball mark of 102–137. In addition, he was Baylor's head baseball coach from 1920 to 1927, amassing a record of 95–73, and the head baseball coach at St. Mary's in 1938. 1944, Bridges served as the co-head coach with Pete Cawthon and Ed Kubale for the Brooklyn Tigers of the National Football League (NFL). He graduated from Harvard University.[1]

Coaching career

From 1911 to 1916, Bridges coached the YMCA basketball team in Columbus, Georgia, then "the cradle of basketball in Georgia."[2][3] In 1919, he coached high school football in Fort Smith, Arkansas.[1]

During his tenure as head football coach at Baylor University, Bridges compiled a 35–18–6 record. His winning percentage of .644 ranks third in school history, behind R. H. Hamilton (.786) and Bob Woodruff (.645). In 1921 and 1922, he led the Bears to consecutive eight-win seasons. Bridges won the school's first two Southwest Conference (SWC) championships, in 1922 and 1924. Baylor did not win another until 1974. From 1927 to 1929, he coached at Hardin–Simmons University where he posted a 16–13–4 record.

Bridges referred basketball games in the Southwest Conference during the 1931–32 season. In the spring of 1932, he was hired as the athletic director at Texas Military College in Terrell, Texas.[4] Bridges also coached football and basketball at Texas Military College, lead the football team to a Central Texas Conference (CTC) championship in 1933.[5]

Death

Bridges died on June 10, 1970, at a nursing home in San Antonio.[6]

Head coaching record

College football

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs
Baylor Bears (Southwest Conference) (1920–1925)
1920 Baylor 4–4–1 1–2–1 5th
1921 Baylor 8–3 2–2 4th
1922 Baylor 8–3 5–0 1st
1923 Baylor 5–1–2 1–1–2 T–4th
1924 Baylor 7–2–1 4–0–1 1st
1925 Baylor 3–5–2 0–3–2 7th
Baylor: 35–18–6 13–8–6
Simmons Cowboys (Texas Conference) (1927–1929)
1927 Simmons 5–3–2 2–1–2 2nd
1928 Simmons 6–6–1 2–3 T–4th
1929 Simmons 5–4–1 1–3–1 T–4th
Simmons: 16–13–4 5–7–3
St. Mary's Rattlers (Independent) (1935)
1935 St. Mary's 6–4–1
St. Mary's Rattlers (Alamo Conference) (1936–1939)
1936 St. Mary's 7–3–2 1–1 T–1st
1937 St. Mary's 7–2–2 1–0–1 T–1st
1938 St. Mary's 6–9 0–2 3rd
1939 St. Mary's 5–4–2 1–2 3rd
St. Mary's: 31–22–7 3–5–1
Total: 82–53–17
      National championship         Conference title         Conference division title or championship game berth

College basketball

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College baseball

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Junior college football

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs
Texas Military College Bulldogs (Central Texas Conference) (1933–1934)
1933 Texas Military College 6–3–2 4–0–1 1st
1934 Texas Military College 6–3 1–2 4th
Texas Military College: 12–6–2 5–2–1
Total: 12–6–2
      National championship         Conference title         Conference division title or championship game berth

References

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