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]