1. Lewis Woolford Hardage was an American college football player and college football and baseball coach.
18 Facts About Lewie Hardage
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Lewie Hardage spent ten seasons, from 1922 to 1931, as the backfield coach at his alma mater, Vanderbilt.
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Lewie Hardage was inducted into the Morgan County Sports Hall of Fame in 2016.
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Lewie Hardage was a prominent halfback at two different schools: Auburn University and Vanderbilt University, and was selected All-Southern every year in which he played.
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Lewie Hardage played two years for Mike Donahue's Auburn Tigers football team, from 1908 to 1909.
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Lewie Hardage scored three touchdowns in the win over the Mercer Baptists.
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Auburn scored against Sewanee when Lew Lewie Hardage put the ball in striking distance with a 30-yard run.
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Lewie Hardage was then a two-year letterman for coach Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores football team.
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Once against Mississippi, Lewie Hardage started around left end, then reversed right, and was again crowded out, reversing field back around left end.
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Lewie Hardage seemed to break a tackle by every Mississippi player on his way to the end zone.
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Lewie Hardage was selected third-team All-American by Walter Camp, the fourth ever Southern player to get such a recognition.
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Lewie Hardage returned an interception 35 yards for a touchdown against Rose Polytechnic.
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Lewie Hardage was injured in the season's only loss, to national champion Harvard.
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From 1922 to 1931, Lewie Hardage returned to his alma mater, Vanderbilt, as the backfield coach for the football team.
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Lewie Hardage focused particularly on halfback Gil Reese upon his arrival, and later coached Hall of Fame quarterback Bill Spears.
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Lewie Hardage filled assistant Josh Cody's role when Cody left to coach Clemson.
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In 1932, Lewie Hardage was hired as the head football coach at Oklahoma, where he coached for three seasons before resigning.
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Lewie Hardage spent the 1935 season as an assistant football coach at Furman University before moving on to Florida where he became the backfield coach for coach Josh Cody's football team and the head coach of the baseball team.