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Spears a wonder as player & coach at 5 of his 6 stops

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Clarence Doc Spears coaching career

21-9-1 at Dartmouth (4 seasons, NO losing season)

30-6-3 at WVU 1922 national title, 2 losses in 3 straight seasons of his 4 in Morgantown 83.3% winning percentage

28-9-3 at Minnesota all 5 seasons were winning seasons, undefeated in 1927, Big 10 co-champ

13-4-2 at Oregon for his 2 seasons there

13-17-2 at Wisconsin in 4 seasons

38-26-2 at Toledo 1 losing season in 7 years

5-12-1 at Maryland for his 2 seasons

148-83-14 for his 28-year career 64% winning percentage

The Dewitt, Arkansas native could practice what he preached, too. He was an All-American guard at Dartmouth College TWICE (1914 & 1915). Good enough to be inducted AS A PLAYER into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955.




Spears studied medicine at the University of Chicago and the Rush Medical College. Following his football career, he maintained a medical practice for many years.

Good with a football whistle, good with a scalpel, too.

WVU was just one of his many coaching stops. Damn glad Morgantown had him for 4 years! Only unbeaten season (regular and post-season) in WVU history!
 
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He did not win a national title in 1922. You have no facts of such and if you did you would post it. So I don't know why you're telling this falsification.

He made 1 bowl game his entire coaching career.

Nice cut and paste job as well. Isn't that against the law when you leave out the source and do not give credit to the writer?
 
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WVUALLEN said:
He did not win a national title in 1922. You have no facts of such and if you did you would post it. So I don't know why you're telling this falsification.

He made 1 bowl game his entire coaching career.

Nice cut and paste job as well. Isn't that against the law when you leave out the source and do not give credit to the writer?
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Well, best I could tell, Biden never got prosecuted for breaking that law. And his instances were far more public.
 
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Let the numbers do the talking about Spears, #1 coach in WVU history:

I'll let the numbers speak for me.

Pitt was 8-2 that season under Pop Warner, not too shabby a coach who has national youth football program named for him today.

Washington & Lee was 5-3-1, beat North Carolina State and tied WVU, 12-12.

Rutgers was 5-4, beat Fordham (a power in those days) and LSU.

Cincinnati was 1-7-1 under new coach George McLaren.

Indiana was 1-4-2.

Virginia was 4-4-1.

WVU was the only team that Ohio University played that season.

Washington & Jefferson’s undefeated 1921 team, with a 450 student enrollment, and Coached by legendary Greasy Neale, used only 11 players for the entire game and tied California in the only scoreless game in Rose Bowl history, at Tournament Park in Pasadena.

The Rose Bowl Stadium housed the Rose Bowl for the first time in 1923. Neale was 16-3-2 in his 2 seasons at W&J, so the team lost only 3 games in 1922.

So Coach Clarence “Doc” Spears team beat FIVE teams with winning seasons – despite playing 2 fewer games than WVU did in 1988 -- while Don Nehlen and the 1988 team that played Notre Dame for the national title beat TWO teams with winning seasons. Maybe more than 5 but I couldn't find records for the other opponents.

Ohio State, not on the WVU schedule, was 3-4 that year.
 
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Cuyahoga Falls Eers said:
Let the numbers do the talking about Spears, #1 coach in WVU history:

I'll let the numbers speak for me.

Pitt was 8-2 that season under Pop Warner, not too shabby a coach who has national youth football program named for him today.

Washington & Lee was 5-3-1, beat North Carolina State and tied WVU, 12-12.

Rutgers was 5-4, beat Fordham (a power in those days) and LSU.

Cincinnati was 1-7-1 under new coach George McLaren.

Indiana was 1-4-2.

Virginia was 4-4-1.

WVU was the only team that Ohio University played that season.

Washington & Jefferson’s undefeated 1921 team, with a 450 student enrollment, and Coached by legendary Greasy Neale, used only 11 players for the entire game and tied California in the only scoreless game in Rose Bowl history, at Tournament Park in Pasadena.

The Rose Bowl Stadium housed the Rose Bowl for the first time in 1923. Neale was 16-3-2 in his 2 seasons at W&J, so the team lost only 3 games in 1922.

So Coach Clarence “Doc” Spears team beat FIVE teams with winning seasons – despite playing 2 fewer games than WVU did in 1988 -- while Don Nehlen and the 1988 team that played Notre Dame for the national title beat TWO teams with winning seasons. Maybe more than 5 but I couldn't find records for the other opponents.

Ohio State, not on the WVU schedule, was 3-4 that year.
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This is why you ruin John Olesky’s name hear.
If Washington & Jefferson played in the Rose Bowl in 1921
How the hell did WVU play in the precursor to the Rose Bowl after that

Too much…
Not even funny anymore. It is obvious
 
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Cuyahoga Falls Eers said:
Let the numbers do the talking about Spears, #1 coach in WVU history:

I'll let the numbers speak for me.

Pitt was 8-2 that season under Pop Warner, not too shabby a coach who has national youth football program named for him today.

Washington & Lee was 5-3-1, beat North Carolina State and tied WVU, 12-12.

Rutgers was 5-4, beat Fordham (a power in those days) and LSU.

Cincinnati was 1-7-1 under new coach George McLaren.

Indiana was 1-4-2.

Virginia was 4-4-1.

WVU was the only team that Ohio University played that season.

Washington & Jefferson’s undefeated 1921 team, with a 450 student enrollment, and Coached by legendary Greasy Neale, used only 11 players for the entire game and tied California in the only scoreless game in Rose Bowl history, at Tournament Park in Pasadena.

The Rose Bowl Stadium housed the Rose Bowl for the first time in 1923. Neale was 16-3-2 in his 2 seasons at W&J, so the team lost only 3 games in 1922.

So Coach Clarence “Doc” Spears team beat FIVE teams with winning seasons – despite playing 2 fewer games than WVU did in 1988 -- while Don Nehlen and the 1988 team that played Notre Dame for the national title beat TWO teams with winning seasons. Maybe more than 5 but I couldn't find records for the other opponents.

Ohio State, not on the WVU schedule, was 3-4 that year.
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You left off Marist and Wesleyan.

Spears was good at what he did in his era. You obviously think WVU was the same then as they are now. Let me know if Spears ever makes a 2nd bowl. The way you're spouting off 5-4 and 5-3 as if they were phenomenal teams that year yet WVU goes 6-4 and WVU is considered to be horrible. Which is it?

Could Spears coach in today's game. Very doubtful.
 
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These losers to WVU were among the national powers in 1922. By the way, Marshall was 5-4 that season.

Date Opponent Site Result Attendance Source
September 30 vs. West Virginia Wesleyan
South Side ParkFairmont, WV
W 20–3
October 7 Marietta
WVU Athletic FieldMorgantown, WV
W 55–0
October 14 at Pittsburgh EAT ****, PITT! JACK FLEMING'S MOTHER MADE ME TYPE THAT.
Forbes FieldPittsburgh, PA (rivalry)
W 9–6 20,000
October 21 vs. Washington and Lee A NATIONAL POWER IN THE 1920s
Laidley FieldCharleston, WV
T 12–12 7,500
October 28 Rutgers LONG BEFORE THE BIG EAST DAYS
WVU Athletic FieldMorgantown, WV
W 28–0 6,000
November 4 at Cincinnati
Varsity FieldCincinnati, OH
W 34–0
November 11 at Indiana BIG 10 TEAM GOES DOWN!
Jordan FieldBloomington, IN
W 33–0
November 18 Virginia FUTURE ACC TEAM GOES DOWN
WVU Athletic FieldMorgantown, WV
W 13–0 [3]
November 25 Ohio
WVU Athletic FieldMorgantown, WV
W 28–0
November 30 Washington & Jefferson ANOTHER POWER IN THOSE DAYS
WVU Athletic FieldMorgantown, WV
W 14–0 13,000 [4]
December 25 vs. Gonzaga
Balboa StadiumSan Diego, CA (East-West Classic) BIG DEAL BEFORE ROSE BOWL OPENED IN 1923
W 21–13 15,000 [5]
 
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