Earl Abell

Earl Abell
Biographical details
Abell pictured in Reveille 1925, Mississippi State yearbook
Sport(s)	Football, basketball
Born	(1892-05-29)May 29, 1892 Portage, Wisconsin
Died	May 26, 1956(1956-05-26) (aged 63) Pardeeville, Wisconsin
Playing career
1912–1915	Colgate
Position(s)	Tackle
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1917–1918	VMI
1919–1920	Sewanee
1922	Virginia (line)
1923–1924	Mississippi A&M
1925–1927	Colgate (assistant)
1928	Colgate
1929–1930	Virginia
Basketball
1917–1919	VMI
Head coaching record
Overall	38–34–6 (football) 14–12 (basketball)
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
All-American, 1915

College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 1973 (profile)

Earl C. "Tuffy" Abell (May 29, 1892 – May 26, 1956) was an American football player and coach. He played college football as a tackle at Colgate University. He later returned to Colgate as an assistant coach in 1925, and took over the head coaching job in 1928. He spent the 1929 and 1930 football seasons as head coach of the University of Virginia Cavaliers football team. He attended Portage High School in Portage, Wisconsin. Abell was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as player in 1973.

Coaching career

Virginia Military Institute

Abell was the 13th head football coach for the Virginia Military Institute Keydets located in Lexington, Virginia and he held that position for the 1917 season. His career coaching record at VMI was 4 wins, 4 losses, and 1 ties. This ranks him 24th at VMI in total wins and 16th at VMI in winning percentage.^[1]

Colgate

Abell was the 22nd head football coach for the Colgate University Raiders located in the Village of Hamilton in Madison County, New York and he held that position for the 1928 season. His overall coaching record at Colgate was 6 wins, 3 losses, and 0 ties. This ranks him 17th at Colgate in terms of total wins and tenth at Colgate in terms of winning percentage.

Personal life

Born in Portage, Wisconsin, Abell attended Colgate University, where he became a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. Abell was married and had three children. He worked for the American Can Company upon retiring from coaching. He died of a heart attack on May 26, 1956.^[2]

Head coaching record

Football

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
VMI Keydets (Independent) (1917–1918)
1917	VMI	4–4–1
1918	VMI	3–3
VMI:		7–7–1
Sewanee Tigers (Independent) (1919–1920)
1919	Sewanee	3–6
1920	Sewanee	4–3–1
Sewanee:		7–9–1
Mississippi A&M Aggies (Southern Conference) (1923–1924)
1923	Mississippi A&M	5–2–2	2–1–2	T–9th
1924	Mississippi A&M	5–4	3–2	T–6th
Mississippi A&M:		10–6–2	5–3–2
Colgate (Independent) (1928)
1928	Colgate	6–3
Colgate:		6–3
Virginia Cavaliers (Southern Conference) (1929–1930)
1929	Virginia	4–3–2	1–3–2	16th
1930	Virginia	4–6	2–5	17th
Virginia:		8–9–2	3–8–2
Total:		38–34–6

Note: In the 1918 season, Abell served as a co-coach alongside Mose Goodman.

Basketball

Season	Team	Overall
VMI Keydets (Independent) (1917–1919)
1917–18	VMI	6–6
1918–19	VMI	8–6
VMI:		14–12
Total:		14–12

^[3]

References

↑ Virginia Military Institute Coaching Records
↑ "Services Held For E.C. Abell". The Milwaukee Journal. May 29, 1956. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
↑ 2013–14 VMI Basketball Fact Book

External links

Earl Abell at the College Football Hall of Fame
Earl Abell at the College Football Data Warehouse
Earl Abell & Mose Goodman at the College Football Data Warehouse

VMI Keydets head football coaches

Unknown (1873)
No team (1874–1890)
Walter Taylor (1891)
No coach (1892–1894)
George W. Bryant (1895–1896)
R. N. Groner (1897)
Sam Boyle (1898–1899)
Sam Walker (1900–1902)
Bill Roper (1903–1904)
Ira Johnson (1905–1906)
Charles Roller (1907–1908)
William C. Gloth (1909–1910)
Alpha Brumage (1911–1912)
Henry Poague (1913)
Frank Gorton (1914–1916)
Earl Abell (1917)
Earl Abell & Mose Goodman (1918)
Red Fleming (1919)
Blandy Clarkson (1920–1926)
W. C. Raftery (1927–1936)
Pooley Hubert (1937–1946)
Arthur Morton (1947–1948)
Tom Nugent (1949–1952)
John McKenna (1953–1965)
Vito Ragazzo (1966–1970)
Bob Thalman (1971–1984)
Eddie Williamson (1985–1988)
Jim Shuck (1989–1993)
Bill Stewart (1994–1996)
Ted Cain (1997–1998)
Donny White # (1998)
Cal McCombs (1999–2005)
Jim Reid (2006–2007)
Sparky Woods (2008–2014)
Scott Wachenheim (2015– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

VMI Keydets basketball head coaches

Pete Krebs (1908–1909)
F. J. Pratt (1909–1910)
J. Mitchell (1910–1911)
Alpha Brumage (1911–1913)
W. C. Raftery (1913–1914)
Frank Gorton (1914–1917)
Earl Abell (1917–1919)
Pinky Spruhan (1919–1922)
W. C. Raftery (1922–1934)
Frank Summers (1934–1936)
Allison Hubert (1936–1937)
Albert Elmore (1937–1938)
Jimmy Walker (1938–1942)
Pooley Hubert (1942–1943)
Joe Daher (1943–1945)
Jay McWilliams (1945–1946)
Lloyd Roberts (1946–1947)
Frank Summers (1947–1949)
Bill O'Hara (1949–1952)
Chuck Noe (1952–1955)
Jack Null (1955–1958)
Weenie Miller (1958–1964)
Gary McPherson (1964–1969)
Mike Schuler (1969–1972)
Bill Blair (1972–1976)
Charlie Schmaus (1976–1982)
Marty Fletcher (1982–1986)
Joe Cantafio (1986–1994)
Bart Bellairs (1994–2005)
Duggar Baucom (2005–2015)
Dan Earl (2015– )

Sewanee Tigers head football coaches

F. G. Sweat (1891–1893)
Herbert C. Foss (1894)
R. M. Reynolds (1895)
J. E. Blair (1896)
John Gere Jayne (1897–1898)
Billy Suter (1899–1901)
L. W. Boynton (1902)
George S. Whitney (1903–1904)
Willard Curtis Hyatt (1905)
James John Quill (1906)
Arthur G. Erwin (1907)
Harry Van Surdam (1908)
Harris G. Cope (1909–1916)
Charles Best (1917–1918)
Earl Abell (1919–1920)
John Patrick Nicholson (1921–1922)
M. S. Bennett (1923–1928)
W. H. Kirkpatrick (1929)
Harvey Harman (1930)
Harry E. Clark (1931–1939)
Jenks Gillem (1940–1941)
No team (1942–1945)
William C. White (1946–1953)
Ernie Williamson (1954–1956)
Shirley Majors (1957–1977)
Horace Moore (1978–1986)
Bill Samko (1987–1993)
Al Logan (1994–1995)
John Windham (1996–2006)
Robert Black (2007–2010)
Tommy Laurendine (2011– )

Mississippi State Bulldogs head football coaches

W. M. Matthews (1895)
J. B. Hildebrand (1896)
No team (1897–1900)
L. B. Harvey (1901)
Jerry Gwin (1902)
Daniel S. Martin (1903–1906)
Fred Furman (1907–1908)
W. D. Chadwick (1909–1913)
Earle C. Hayes (1914–1916)
Stanley L. Robinson (1917–1919)
Ferdinand Holtkamp (1920–1921)
Dudy Noble (1922)
Earl Abell (1923–1924)
Bernie Bierman (1925–1926)
John W. Hancock (1927–1929)
Chris Cagle (1930)
Ray G. Dauber (1931–1932)
Ross McKechnie (1933–1934)
Ralph Sasse (1935–1937)
Spike Nelson (1938)
Allyn McKeen (1939–1942)
No team (1943)
Allyn McKeen (1944–1948)
Arthur Morton (1949–1951)
Murray Warmath (1952–1953)
Darrell Royal (1954–1955)
Wade Walker (1956–1961)
Paul E. Davis (1962–1966)
Charles Shira (1967–1972)
Bob Tyler (1973–1978)
Emory Bellard (1979–1985)
Rockey Felker (1986–1990)
Jackie Sherrill (1991–2003)
Sylvester Croom (2004–2008)
Dan Mullen (2009– )

Colgate Raiders head football coaches

Samuel Colgate Jr. (1890–1891)
Preston Smith (1892)
L. Jay Caldwell (1893)
Spencer Ford (1894)
L. Jay Caldwell (1895)
Joseph Colnon (1896)
Charles B. Mason (1897–1898)
Joseph Stannard (1899)
Joseph A. Short (1900)
Jerry Delaney (1901)
Frank "Buck" O'Neill (1902)
Bob Hatch (1903)
Frank "Buck" O'Neill (1904–1905)
Bill Warner (1906–1907)
Edwin Sweetland (1908)
Gus Brown (1909)
Laurence Bankart (1910)
Jack E. Ingersoll (1911)
Dutch Sommer (1912)
Laurence Bankart (1913–1916)
Harold McDevitt (1917)
No team (1918)
Ellery Huntington Jr. (1919–1921)
Dick Harlow (1922–1925)
George Hauser (1926–1927)
Earl Abell (1928)
Andrew Kerr (1929–1946)
Paul Bixler (1947–1951)
Hal Lahar (1952–1956)
Fred Rice (1957–1958)
Alva Kelley (1959–1961)
Hal Lahar (1962–1967)
Neil Wheelwright (1968–1975)
Frederick Dunlap (1976–1987)
Michael Foley (1988–1992)
Ed Sweeney (1993–1995)
Dick Biddle (1996–2013)
Dan Hunt (2014– )

Virginia Cavaliers head football coaches

No coach (1888–1892)
Johnny Poe (1893–1894)
Harry Arista Mackey (1895)
Martin V. Bergen (1896–1897)
Joseph Massie (1898)
Archie Hoxton (1899–1900)
Westley Abbott (1901)
John de Saulles (1902)
Gresham Poe (1903)
George Sanford (1904)
William C. "King" Cole (1905–1906)
Hammond Johnson (1907)
Merritt Cooke Jr. (1908)
John Neff (1909)
Charles B. Crawford (1910)
Kemper Yancey (1911)
John S. Elliott (1912)
W. Rice Warren (1913)
Joseph M. Wood (1914)
Harry Varner (1915)
Peyton Evans (1916)
Harris Coleman (1919)
W. Rice Warren (1920–1921)
Thomas J. Campbell (1922)
Greasy Neale (1923–1928)
Earl Abell (1929–1930)
Fred Dawson (1931–1933)
Gus Tebell (1934–1936)
Frank Murray (1937–1945)
Arthur Guepe (1946–1952)
Ned McDonald (1953–1955)
Ben Martin (1956–1957)
Dick Voris (1958–1960)
Bill Elias (1961–1964)
George Blackburn (1965–1970)
Don Lawrence (1971–1973)
Sonny Randle (1974–1975)
Dick Bestwick (1976–1981)
George Welsh (1982–2000)
Al Groh (2001–2009)
Mike London (2010–2015)
Bronco Mendenhall (2016– )

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