Charles Best (American football)

Charles Best
Biographical details
Best pictured in The Cap & Gown 1918, Sewanee yearbook
Sport(s)	Football, basketball
Born	(1874-07-25)July 25, 1874 Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
Died	July 4, 1962(1962-07-04) (aged 87) Alameda County, California
Alma mater	Lafayette University (1899)
Playing career
Football
1898	Lafayette
Position(s)	Quarterback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1900–1901	Drake
1902	Purdue
1917–1918	Sewanee
Basketball
1901–1902	Purdue
Head coaching record
Overall	24–13–3 (football) 10–3 (basketball)

Charles Monroe Best (July 25, 1874 – July 4, 1962)^[1]^[2] was an American football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at Drake University (1900–1901), Purdue University (1902), and Sewanee: The University of the South (1917–1918), compiling a career college football record of 24–13–3. Best was also the head basketball coach at Purdue for one season in 1901–1902, tallying a mark of 10–3.

Coaching career

Drake

Best was the fifth head football coach at Drake University located in Des Moines, Iowa and he held that position for two seasons, from 1900 until 1901. His overall coaching record at Drake was 10 wins, 7 losses, and 0 ties. This ranks him 11th at Drake in terms of total wins and fourth at Drake in terms of winning percentage.^[3]

Purdue

Best coached for the 1902 season at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Best had his most successful season at Purdue, posting a rtecord of 7 wins, 2 losses, and 1 tie.^[4]

Head coaching record

Football

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Drake Bulldogs (Independent) (1900–1901)
1900	Drake	6–3
1901	Drake	4–4
Drake:		10–7
Purdue Boilermakers (Big Ten Conference) (1902)
1902	Purdue	7–2–1	2–2	5th
Purdue:		7–2–1	2–2
Sewanee Tigers (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1917–1918)
1917	Sewanee	4–2–2	3–2–2
1918	Sewanee	3–2	0–1
Sewanee:		7–4–1	3–3–2
Total:		24–13–3

References

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↑ Drake Coaching Records Archived July 27, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
↑ All-Time Coaching Records by Year

External links

Charles Best at the College Football Data Warehouse
Charles Best at College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com

Lafayette Leopards starting quarterbacks

Charles Best Ed Baker

Drake Bulldogs head football coaches

No coach (1893)
W. W. Wharton (1894)
Hermon Williams (1895)
Fred Rogers (1896)
A. B. Potter (1897–1899)
Charles Best (1900–1901)
G. O. Dietz (1902)
W. J. Monilaw (1903–1904)
Willie Heston (1905)
Charles Pell (1906–1907)
John L. Griffith (1908–1915)
Ralph Glaze (1916–1917)
M. B. Banks (1918–1920)
Ossie Solem (1921–1931)
Evan O. Williams (1932)
Vee Green (1933–1946)
Albert Kawal (1947–1948)
Warren Gaer (1949–1958)
Tom O'Connell (1959)
Bus Mertes (1960–1964)
Jack Wallace (1965–1976)
Chuck Shelton (1977–1985)
Exhibition only (1986)
Nick Quartaro (1987–1988)
Rob Ash (1989–2006)
Steve Loney (2007)
Chris Creighton (2008–2013)
Rick Fox (2014– )

Purdue Boilermakers head football coaches

Albert Berg (1887)
No team (1888)
George Andrew Reisner (1889)
Clinton L. Hare (1890)
Knowlton Ames (1891–1892)
D. M. Balliet (1893–1895)
Samuel M. Hammond (1896)
William W. Church (1897)
Alpha Jamison (1898–1900)
D. M. Balliet (1901)
Charles Best (1902)
Oliver Cutts (1903–1904)
Albert E. Herrnstein (1905)
Myron E. Witham (1906)
Leigh C. Turner (1907)
Frederick A. Speik (1908–1909)
Bill Horr (1910–1912)
Andy Smith (1913–1915)
Cleo A. O'Donnell (1916–1917)
A. G. Scanlon (1918–1920)
William Henry Dietz (1921)
James Phelan (1922–1929)
Noble Kizer (1930–1936)
Allen Elward (1937–1941)
Elmer Burnham (1942–1943)
Cecil Isbell (1944–1946)
Stu Holcomb (1947–1955)
Jack Mollenkopf (1956–1969)
Bob DeMoss (1970–1972)
Alex Agase (1973–1976)
Jim Young (1977–1981)
Leon Burtnett (1982–1986)
Fred Akers (1987–1990)
Jim Colletto (1991–1996)
Joe Tiller (1997–2008)
Danny Hope (2009–2012)
Patrick Higgins # (2012)
Darrell Hazell (2013–2016)
Gerad Parker # (2016)
Jeff Brohm (2017– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball head coaches

F. Homer Curtis (1896–1897)
No team (1897–1899)
Alpha Jamison (1899–1901)
Charles Best (1901–1902)
C. I. Freeman (1902–1903)
No coach (1903–1904)
James Nufer (1904–1905)
C. B. Jamison (1905–1908)
E. J. Stewart (1908–1909)
Ralph Jones (1909–1912)
Robert E. Vaughan (1912–1916)
Ward Lambert (1916–1917)
J. J. Maloney (1917–1918)
Ward Lambert (1918–1946)
Mel Taube (1946–1950)
Ray Eddy (1950–1965)
George King (1965–1972)
Fred Schaus (1972–1978)
Lee Rose (1978–1980)
Gene Keady (1980–2005)
Matt Painter (2005– )

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– )

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