Bob Evans (coach) explained

Bob Evans
Birth Date:16 November 1889
Birth Place:Tamaroa, Illinois, U.S.
Death Place:San Mateo, California, U.S.
Coach Sport1:Football
Coach Years2:1916–1917
Coach Team2:Colorado
Coach Years3:1919
Coach Team3:Stanford
Coach Sport4:Basketball
Coach Years5:1917–1918
Coach Team5:Colorado
Coach Years6:1918–1920
Coach Team6:Stanford
Coach Sport7:Baseball
Coach Years8:1918
Coach Team8:Colorado
Coach Years9:1919–1920
Coach Team9:Stanford
Overall Record:11–10–1 (football)
30–8 (basketball)
18–17 (baseball)

Melbourne Covell "Bob" Evans (November 16, 1889 – August 29, 1964) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1916 and 1917 and at Stanford University in 1919, compiling a career college football record of 11–10–1. Evans was also the head basketball coach at Colorado (1917–1918) and Stanford (1918–1920), tallying a career college basketball mark of 30–8, and the head baseball coach at Colorado (1918) and Stanford (1919–1920), amassing a career college baseball record of 18–17. He was also a football official and worked a number of Rose Bowls.[1]

Evans later worked as a grain broker for Evan & Breckenridge in San Francisco. He died on August 29, 1964, at Mills Memorial Hospital in San Mateo, California.[2]

Head coaching record

Football

Notes and References

  1. News: Nebraska Words Indoors; Three Feet of Snow Cover Field --Squad Leaves Thursday . . . December 17, 1940 . November 22, 2010 . January 11, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200111013612/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/12/17/129164482.html . live .
  2. News: . Melbourne C. Evans . . . August 31, 1964 . 21 . October 18, 2020 . . October 21, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201021032157/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61354017/the-times/ . live .