Charles A. West | |
Birth Date: | 13 March 1890 |
Birth Place: | Cherokee, Iowa, U.S. |
Death Place: | Grand Forks, North Dakota, U.S. |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1919–1927 |
Coach Team2: | South Dakota State |
Coach Years3: | 1928–1941 |
Coach Team3: | North Dakota |
Coach Years4: | 1945 |
Coach Team4: | North Dakota |
Coach Years5: | 1946–1948 |
Coach Team5: | Winnipeg Blue Bombers |
Coach Sport6: | Basketball |
Coach Years7: | 1919–1926 |
Coach Team7: | South Dakota State |
Coach Years8: | 1944–1945 |
Coach Team8: | North Dakota |
Admin Years1: | 1928–1946 |
Admin Team1: | North Dakota |
Overall Record: | 134–54–14 (college football) 74–66 (college basketball) |
Championships: | Football 11 NCC (1922, 1924, 1926, 1928–1931, 1934, 1936–1937, 1939) |
Charles Aaron "Jack" West (March 13, 1890 – October 29, 1957) was an American football, Canadian football, and basketball coach and college athletics administrator He served as the head football coach at South Dakota State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts - now South Dakota State University - from 1919 to 1927 and at the University of North Dakota from 1928 to 1941 and again in 1945, compiling a career college football record of 134–54–14. West was also the head basketball coach at South Dakota State from 1919 to 1926 and at North Dakota during the 1944–45 season, amassing a career college basketball record of 74–66. He coached football teams to 11 North Central Conference (NCC) titles, three at South Dakota State and eight at North Dakota. In addition, he served as North Dakota's athletic director from 1928 to 1946. West left the college ranks in 1946 to become head coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, then of the Western Interprovincial Football Union, now a division of the Canadian Football League (CFL).[1] He died at the age of 67, on October 29, 1957, at his home in Grand Forks, North Dakota.[2]