Coaching career Harry Stiteler

1 coaching career

1.1 high school football coach
1.2 rice institute
1.3 texas a&m

coaching career
high school football coach

after graduating texas a&m, stiteler served high school football coach 1931 1945. began coaching career @ smithville, texas (1931–1933), , later coached high school teams in bellville (1934–1937), corpus christi (1938–1941), , waco (1942–1945). in 15 years high school football coach, stiteler s teams won ten district championships, 2 regional championships, texas state championship corpus christi in 1938, , tie state championship waco in 1945. 1938 corpus christi team finished season 13–0–1, outscored opponents 466–85, , won state championship in front of 21,000 spectators @ cotton bowl. record 1934 1938 55–1–2. president of texas high school coaches association in 1942.

rice institute

in february 1946, after leading waco texas football co-championship in 1945, stiteler hired rice institute assistant football coach. rice head coach jess neely hired stiteler fill vacancy created when backfield coach buster brannon resigned take position @ university of florida. stiteler helped lead 1946 rice owls football team 9–2 record , victory on tennessee volunteers in orange bowl on january 1, 1947.

texas a&m

stiteler returned alma mater in july 1947 backfield coach texas a&m aggies football team.

in december 1947, hired head coach texas a&m football team following resignation of homer norton. in first season head coach, aggies failed win game, accumulating record of 0–9–1. 1949 season, aggies won 1 game , had record of 1–8–1. despite poor record in first 2 seasons, stiteler developed reputation recruiter. in 1950, stiteler turned program around 7–4 record, including impressive wins on arkansas (42–13) , smu (25–20) , 40–20 win on georgia in presidential cup bowl @ baltimore. 1950 team had best record of texas a&m football team in first decade after world war ii (1945–1954).

in december 1950, stiteler reported had been attacked , beaten stranger near shamrock hotel in houston, stiteler had been scheduled address group of texas a&m alumni. stiteler tried downplay incident, press reported stiteler declined provide details police , there conflicting versions had happened. san antonio light reported incident under banner headline, mystery shrouds stiteler beating. in march 1951, stiteler admitted had misrepresented facts concerning assault. reported had known attacker , affair personal one. stiteler submitted letter of resignation president of texas a&m upon revealing true facts concerning affair in houston. following resignation, members of football team issued statement in support of former coach:

believe whatever happened mr. stiteler personal matter , should have remained that. lot of boys came a. , m. in 1948 not because a. , m. had won games because of harry stiteler , character. has never ceased set same example in years have played , worked him.

in 3 years head coach @ texas a&m, stiteler compiled record of 8–21–2.