C. D. Bliss

C. D. Bliss
Biographical details
Bliss pictured in The Savitar 1896, Missouri yearbook
Sport(s)	Football
Born	(1870-07-16)July 16, 1870 New York City, New York
Died	March 26, 1948(1948-03-26) (aged 77)
Playing career
1889	Yale
1891–1892	Yale
Position(s)	Halfback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1893	Stanford
1894	Haverford
1895	Missouri
Head coaching record
Overall	15–6–1
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
1 WIUFA (1895)

Clifford Douglas "Pop" Bliss (July 16, 1870 – March 26, 1948) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Stanford University, Haverford College, and the University of Missouri, compiling a career college football record of 15–6–1. Bliss played football at Yale University as a halfback alongside his brother, Laurie Bliss, who went on to coach at the United States Military Academy and Lehigh University.

Playing career

Bliss was born in New York City and attended Yale University, where he played halfback. With his brother, Laurie Bliss, in the same backfield, he led Yale to back-to-back national championships and undefeated seasons in 1891 and 1892. Coached by Walter Camp, Yale did not allow opposing teams to score a single point in those two seasons.^[1]^[2]

Coaching career

In 1893, Bliss was named head football coach at Stanford University.^[3]^[4] Bliss, who had graduated from Yale the year before, was filling in for Walter Camp who was the school's first coach in 1892 and would return in 1894. Bliss' team was undefeated with one tie.^[5]

In 1894, Bliss coached Haverford College but the team did not win a single game.^[4] In 1895, Bliss became the fifth head coach for the University of Missouri–Columbia Tigers located in Columbia, Missouri where his team record was 7 wins, 1 losses, and 0 ties. This ranks him 19th at Missouri in total wins and second at Missouri in winning percentage.^[6]

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Stanford (Independent) (1893)
1893	Stanford	8–0–1
Stanford:		8–0–1
Haverford Fords (Independent) (1894)
1894	Haverford	0–5
Haverford:		0–5
Missouri Tigers (Western Interstate University Football Association) (1895)
1895	Missouri	7–1	2–1	T–1st
Missouri:		7–1	2–1
Total:		15–6–1
National championship Conference title Conference division title

References

↑ "Rah! Rah! Rah! Yale!" (PDF). The New York Times. 1892-11-19. Retrieved 2009-11-19.
↑ "Yale's team in fine fettle". The New York Times. 1892-11-23. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
↑ "Football: Retrospective and Perspective" (PDF). Outing 23 (2): 126. November 1893.
1 2 "Missouri Head Coaches - Clifford Bliss". University of Missouri. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
↑ Migdol, Gary (1997). Stanford: Home of Champions. Sports Publishing LLC. p. 13. ISBN 1-57167-116-1. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
↑ "Missouri Coaching Records". Retrieved 2009-06-18.

External links

C. D. Bliss at the College Football Data Warehouse

Stanford Cardinal head football coaches

No coach (1891)
Walter Camp (1892)
C. D. Bliss (1893)
Walter Camp (1894–1895)
Harry P. Cross (1896)
George H. Brooke (1897)
Harry P. Cross (1898)
Burr Chamberlain (1899)
Fielding H. Yost (1900)
Charles Fickert (1901)
Carl L. Clemans (1902)
James F. Lanagan (1903–1905)
No team (1906–1918)
Bob Evans (1919)
Walter D. Powell (1920)
Eugene Van Gent (1921)
Andrew Kerr (1922–1923)
Glenn Scobey Warner (1924–1932)
Claude E. Thornhill (1933–1939)
Clark Shaughnessy (1940–1941)
Marchmont Schwartz (1942)
No team (1943–1945)
Marchmont Schwartz (1946–1950)
Chuck Taylor (1951–1957)
Jack Curtice (1958–1962)
John Ralston (1963–1971)
Jack Christiansen (1972–1976)
Bill Walsh (1977–1978)
Rod Dowhower (1979)
Paul Wiggin (1980–1983)
Jack Elway (1984–1988)
Dennis Green (1989–1991)
Bill Walsh (1992–1994)
Tyrone Willingham (1995–2001)
Buddy Teevens (2002–2004)
Walt Harris (2005–2006)
Jim Harbaugh (2007–2010)
David Shaw (2011– )

Haverford Fords head football coaches

C. D. Bliss (1894) M. S. Bennett (1915) Harvey Harman (1922–1929) Roy Randall (1933–1942) No team (1943–1945) Roy Randall (1946–1962) Bill Docherty (1963–?) Dana Swan (1968–1971)

Missouri Tigers head football coaches

A. L. McRae (1890)
Hal Reid (1891)
E. H. Jones (1892)
Harry Orman Robinson (1893–1894)
C. D. Bliss (1895)
Frank Patterson (1896)
Charles Young (1897)
Dave Fultz (1898–1899)
Fred W. Murphy (1900–1901)
Pat O'Dea (1902)
John McLean (1903–1905)
W. J. Monilaw (1906–1908)
Bill Roper (1909)
Bill Hollenback (1910)
Chester Brewer (1911–1913)
Henry Schulte (1914–1917)
No team (1918)
John F. Miller (1919)
James Phelan (1920–1921)
Thomas Kelley (1922)
Gwinn Henry (1923–1931)
Frank Carideo (1932–1934)
Don Faurot (1935–1942)
Chauncey Simpson (1943–1945)
Don Faurot (1946–1956)
Frank Broyles (1957)
Dan Devine (1958–1970)
Al Onofrio (1971–1977)
Warren Powers (1978–1984)
Woody Widenhofer (1985–1988)
Bob Stull (1989–1993)
Larry Smith (1994–2000)
Gary Pinkel (2001–2015)
Barry Odom (2016– )

1891 Yale Bulldogs football—national champions

Frank Barbour Laurie Bliss C. D. Bliss Ben Crosby Harmon S. Graves John A. Hartwell William Heffelfinger Frank Hinkey Lee McClung Vance C. McCormick Ralph Delahaye Paine George Sanford Alexander Hamilton Wallis Wallace Winter Head coach Walter Camp

1892 Yale Bulldogs football—national champions

George Adee Bill Armstrong Laurie Bliss Pop Bliss Frank Butterworth Thomas Cochran Harmon S. Graves Bill Hickok Frank Hinkey Vance McCormick Sandy Sanford Phillip Stillman Alexander Hamilton Wallis Wallace Winter Head coach Walter Camp

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