Henry W. Lever

Henry W. Lever
Biographical details
Lever pictured in The Hinakaga 1913–14, Carroll yearbook
Sport(s)	Football, basketball, baseball, track
Born	(1883-10-04)October 4, 1883 Loveland, Ohio
Died	July 1, 1980(1980-07-01) (aged 96) Madras, Oregon
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1909	Valley City State
1911	TCU
1913	Carroll (WI)
1930–1938	Linfield
1940–1942	Linfield
Basketball
1910–1911	Valley City State
1912–1914	Carroll (WI)
1930–1941	Linfield
1942–1947	Linfield
Baseball
1912	TCU
1947	Linfield
Track
1931–1935	Linfield
1941–1943	Linfield
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1930–1949	Linfield
Head coaching record
Overall	39–63–10 (college football)
Statistics College Football Data Warehouse
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Football 1 NWC (1935)

Henry Work Lever (October 4, 1883 – July 1, 1980) was an American sportsperson and educator. He was a college football coach at four different colleges, as well as an athletic director, baseball coach, basketball coach, and track coach.

Early life

Lever graduated from high school in Loveland, Ohio, in 1901 and then started college at Miami University.^[1] After also attending Ohio Northern University, he then graduated from Ohio University in 1908, playing football at all three schools.^[1] Lever then began teaching at today's Valley City State University in North Dakota that same year, where he also served as athletic director.^[1] The next year he married Marguerite Sherburne, with the marriage producing nine children.^[1] After a few years the family moved to Missouri to farm.^[1]

Coaching career

In 1911 Lever was named the eighth head coach of the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs in Fort Worth, Texas. His team produced a record of 4 wins and 5 losses that year.^[2] For 1912 he was TCU's baseball manager.^[1]

After his years at TCU, Lever became the tenth head football coach at Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin and he held that position for the 1913 season. At the school he was also the men's basketball coach for two season from 1912 to 1914.^[1] His football coaching record at Carroll was 2–2–3.

Lever moved his family north to Alberta, Canada around 1916 to farm, but returned to the states about 1921 and started farming in Yakima, Washington.^[1] They moved again to the southern Oregon Coast, eventually settling in Myrtle Point where he was a teacher at the high school and coached baseball, football, track, and basketball.^[1] Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, then hired him in 1930 and worked as athletic director until 1949.^[1] Lever was also the football coach from 1930 to 1938, and again from 1940 to 1942, compiling a record of 30–54–7, with a conference championship in 1935, the school's first.^[1]

At Linfield he also was the men's basketball coach from 1930 to 1941 and again from 1942 to 1947. Lever had a record of 173–109 for a .613 winning percentage, the highest in school history for a coach with at least two seasons.^[1] He was also the track coach from 1931 to 1935 and 1941 to 1943, and then baseball coach in 1947 when they won their first Northwest Conference championship.^[1] He was later inducted into the college's athletic hall of fame.^[1]

Later years

In 1952, Marguerite died and Lever moved to Central Oregon in 1953, settling in Madras.^[1] He farmed briefly before moving into real estate as broker, which he continued until his death on July 1, 1980, after he was hit by a truck as he crossed the highway.^[1]

Head coaching record

College football

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Valley City State Vikings () (1909)
1909	Valley City State	3–2
Valley City State:		3–2
TCU Horned Frogs (Independent) (1911)
1911	TCU	4–5
TCU:		4–5
Carroll Pioneers () (1913)
1913	Carroll	2–2–3
Carroll:		2–2–3
Linfield Wildcats (Northwest Conference) (1930–1938)
1930	Linfield	1–7	0–4	6th
1931	Linfield	0–6–1	0–3	6th
1932	Linfield	3–5	1–3	5th
1933	Linfield	4–4	2–2	T–3rd
1934	Linfield	5–3	2–3	5th
1935	Linfield	5–2–2	3–0–1	T–1st
1936	Linfield	3–3–2	3–2–1	T–3rd
1937	Linfield	3–4
1938	Linfield	2–6	1–3	T–5th
Linfield Wildcats (Northwest Conference) (1940–1942)
1940	Linfield	1–7	0–5	6th
1941	Linfield	1–6–1	0–4	6th
1942	Linfield	2–1–1	0–1–1	5th
Linfield:		30–54–7	12–30–3
Total:		39–63–10
National championship Conference title Conference division title

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Marsh, Tim (November 2005). "Coach Henry Lever of Linfield" (PDF). College Football Historical Society XIX (1): 1–4. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
↑ College Football Data Warehouse Henry W. Lever

External links

Henry W. Lever at the College Football Data Warehouse

Valley City State Vikings head football coaches

Henry W. Lever (1909)
No team (1910)
J. W. Redewald (1911–1912)
No team (1913–1915)
T. J. Call (1916)
Purdy (1917)
No team (1918)
L. D. Rhodes (1919–1921)
L.G. Hurst (1922–1924)
James Morrison (1925–1936)
Roy McLeod (1937–1942)
No team (1943)
Bill May (1944)
No team (1945)
Roy DeGreef (1946)
C. H. Bliss (1947)
Bill Richter (1948–1950)
Robert Nicholls (1951)
Bill Richter (1952–1953)
Vern Gale (1954–1959)
Al Evans (1960–1961)
Dick Koppenhaver (1962–1964)
Millard Jurovich (1965)
Harold Drescher (1966–1970)
Pete Nyhus (1971–1973)
Jim Dew (1974–1993)
Steve LeGrand (1994–1996)
Dennis McCulloch (1997– )

TCU Horned Frogs head football coaches

No coach (1896)
Joe Field (1897)
James Morrison (1898)
No coach (1899)
No team (1900)
No coach (1901)
H. E. Hildebrand (1902)
No coach (1903)
C. E. Cronk (1904)
Emory J. Hyde (1905–1907)
Jesse R. Langley (1908–1909)
Kemp Lewis (1910)
Henry W. Lever (1911)
W. T. Stewart (1912)
Fred Cahoon (1913)
Stanley A. Boles (1914)
Ewing Y. Freeland (1915)
Milton Daniel (1916–1917)
E. M. Tipton (1918)
T. D. Hackney (1919)
William L. Driver (1920–1921)
John McKnight (1922)
Matty Bell (1923–1928)
Francis Schmidt (1929–1933)
Dutch Meyer (1934–1952)
Abe Martin (1953–1966)
Fred Taylor (1967–1970)
Jim Pittman (1971)
Billy Tohill (1971–1973)
Jim Shofner (1974–1976)
F. A. Dry (1977–1982)
Jim Wacker (1983–1991)
Pat Sullivan (1992–1997)
Dennis Franchione (1998–2000)
Gary Patterson (2000– )

TCU Horned Frogs head baseball coaches

Unknown (1896)
Alexander Easley (1897)
Unknown (1898–1906)
Ellis Hardy (1907–1910)
M. A. Baldwin (1911)
Henry W. Lever (1912)
William Nance (1913)
Frederick M. Cahoon (1914)
Fred Moore (1915)
Ewing Y. Freeland (1916)
Unknown (1917–1918)
Frederick M. Cahoon (1919–1920)
William Nance (1921–1925)
Dutch Meyer (1926–1934)
Raymond Wolf (1935–1936)
Howard Grubbs (1937–1939)
Walter Roach (1940–1942)
No team (1943–1944)
Dutch Meyer (1945)
Walter Roach (1946–1955)
Dutch Meyer (1956–1957)
Clyde McDowell (1958–1961)
Frank Windegger (1962–1975)
Roger Williams (1976)
Willie Maxwell (1977–1983)
Bragg Stockton (1984–1986)
Lance Brown (1987–2003)
Jim Schlossnagle (2004– )

Carroll Pioneers head football coaches

Ward A. Wescott (1896)
No team (1897)
J. G. Britton (1898)
John D. Schwender (1899–1900)
Mark D. Nave (1901–1903)
John D. Schwender (1904–1905)
No team (1906–1907)
Harrison McJohnston (1908)
Wilfred C. Bleamaster (1909–1911)
William Davies (1912)
Henry W. Lever (1913)
John Edmund Fries (1914–1918)
Roy E. Haberman (1919)
John Edmund Fries (1920)
C. C. Boone (1921)
Matty Bell (1922)
Phillip Norris Armstrong (1923–1930)
Vincent P. Batha (1931)
Glenn Thistlethwaite (1932–1933)
Elmer A. Lampe (1934–1937)
John W. Breen (1938–1948)
Francis J. McCormick (1949–1957)
Lisle Blackbourn (1958)
Vince DiFrancesca (1959–1971)
Steve Miller (1972–1976)
Robert Larsen (1977)
Mark W. Williams (1978–1981)
Merle Masonholder (1979–2000)
Jeff Voris (2001–2005)
Henny Hiemenz (2006–2010)
Mark Krzykowski (2011– )

Linfield Wildcats head football coaches

A. M. Brumback (1896–1900)
Dave Waddell (1901)
John McBride (1902)
Herbert Toney (1903)
W. L. Thompson (1904)
Dave Waddell (1905)
No team (1906–1921)
Maurice Pettit (1922–1925)
Lawrence Wolfe (1926–1927)
Henry Sielk (1928–1929)
Henry W. Lever (1930–1938)
Wayne Harn (1939)
Henry W. Lever (1940–1942)
No team (1943–1945)
Wayne Harn (1946–1947)
Paul Durham (1948–1967)
Ad Rutschman (1968–1991)
Ed Langsdorf (1992–1995)
Jay Locey (1996–2005)
Joseph Smith (2006– )

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