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James O. “Jerry” Huntsman Sport(s) Football Biographical details Born November 29, 1929 Place of birth Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania Died April 5, 2005 Place of death Niceville, Florida Playing career 1948–1952 Wabash Position(s) Quarterback Coaching career (HC unless noted) 1954
1955
1956–1958
1959–1960
1961–1964
1965
1966–1972Waveland (IN) HS (asst)
Covington (IN) HS (asst)
Crawfordsville (IN) HS
Huntington (IN) HS
Earlham
Indiana State (Backs)
Indiana StateHead coaching record Overall 72–27–1 (college) Statistics College Football Data Warehouse Accomplishments and honors Awards 1968 NCAA District #2 Coach of the Year
1966 NCAA District #1 Coach of the Year
1966 Indiana Collegiate Conference Coach of the Year
1963 NAIA District Coach of the YearJames ‘Jerry’ Huntsman (born 1929) is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Earlham College (1961–1964), and Indiana State University (1966–1972), compiling a career college football record of 72–27–1.
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Playing career
Huntsman played football as a quarterback at Wabash College from 1948 through 1951, where he was selected ‘All-State’ in his senior season. He was also awarded with the Robert E. Vaughan Award as the college's outstanding athlete following his senior year. During his U.S. Army stint; Huntsman was named to the 'All-Army' Track & Field team as a javelin thrower.
Coaching career
Huntsman began his coaching career in 1954 at Waveland High School Waveland, Indiana and then moved on to Covington High School in Covington, Indiana for the 1955 season. From 1956-58, he was the head coach for the Crawfordsville High Artesians Crawfordsville, Indiana. building a record of 14–12–2; his next stop was at Huntington High School Huntington, Indiana; his Vikings didn't lose a game during his 2 seasons; tallying a mark of 19–0–1.
Following the 1960 school year, he moved to Earlham College and spent four highly successful seasons as the Head Coaching job. In 1965, he accepted an assistant coaching position at rapidly growing Indiana State University with the understanding that he would be named the head coach for the 1966 season.
College career
Huntsman's Quakers lost one game during his four year tenure; racking up a record of 29–3 and building a national reputation for defense (in 1961, his Quakers had a nationally ranked defense - 3rd in the nation. He left his hometown of Richmond, Indiana (home of Earlham College) with a career coaching record of 62–15–3.
In 1965, he arrived in Terre Haute as an offensive assistant (backs) and joined a staff, one season removed from an Indiana Collegiate Conference championship. His 1968 team, went 9-1, narrowly missing an invitation to the Grantland Rice Bowl. In 1973, when poor health forced him into an administrative position prematurely; he ranked 2nd in wins (43) and 1st in winning percentage (.632) at Indiana State; he is currently 3rd in wins but maintains his position as the winningest coach in 100+ seasons of Sycamore football. He also holds a 5-2 record in Homecoming games. He retired as the Associate Athletics Director in 1982; assisting the promotion of the Indiana State athletic department from Division II to Division I and helping secure admission to the Missouri Valley Conference.
Family
Huntsman is the son of former Earlham College and Wabash College head coach Owen Huntsman; himself a highly successful football coach. Huntsman's brother, Stan, was a very successful track and field coach at Ohio University.
Head coaching record
Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs Earlham College Quakers (Independent) (1961–1964) 1961 Earlham 7–1 none n/a Defense ranked 3rd in NAIA 1962 Earlham 8–0 none n/a 1963 Earlham 7–1 none n/a 1964 Earlham 7–1 none n/a Earlham: 29–1 n/a Indiana State Sycamores (Indiana Collegiate Conference) (1966–1972) 1966 Indiana State 6–2 4–2 T2th 1967 Indiana State 6–4 4–2 T–3rd 1968 Indiana State 9–1 independent n/a 1969 Indiana State 6–3–1 independent n/a 1970 Indiana State 5–5 independent n/a 1971 Indiana State 4–6 independent n/a 1972 Indiana State 7–3 independent n/a Indiana State: 43–24–1 8–4 Total: 72–27–1 References
- http://www.gosycamores.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=15200&ATCLID=1551447
- http://www.wabash.edu/sports/hof
- http://www.goearlham.com/hof.aspx?hof=10&path=&kiosk=
- http://www.indiana-football.org/?q=node/403
- http://scholars.indstate.edu/bitstream/10484/1223/1/isua-athletics-football-1966.pdf
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Earlham Quakers head football coaches No coach (1889) • No team (1890) • No coach (1891–1895) • Fred Allen (1896–1897) • No coach (1898–1899) • Cloyd Marshall (1900) • E. C. Robertson (1901) • No coach (1902) • John F. G. Miller (1903–1905) • Walter C. Wilson (1906) • Frederick C. Vail (1907–1908) • Glenn Thistlethwaite (1909–1912) • Chester L. Reagan (1913) • Horace Whiteside (1914–1916) • Walter O. Lewis (1917) • No team (1918) • Ray B. Mowe (1919–1922) • Norman G. Wann (1923–1924) • Maurice O. Ross (1925–1936) • Owen Huntsman (1937–1948) • Donald Cumley (1949–1950) • Robert Meyne (1951–1956) • Curt Jones (1957–1958) • George Oberle (1959) • Paul Glod (1960) • Jerry Huntsman (1961–1964) • Bob Geiger (1965) • Rick Carter (1966–1971) • Kirk Mee (1972–1973) • Jim Fricke (1974–1975) • Roger Campbell (1976–1979) • Steve Beckholt (1980–1981) • Frank Carr & Fred Cromie (1982) • Ed Clemmer (1983–1984) • Frank Carr (1985–2001) • Gerry Keesling (2002) • Lawrence Livingston (2003) • Gerry Keesling (2004– )
Indiana State Sycamores head football coaches Unknown (1896) • No team (1897) • Fred Dubridge (1898) • No team (1899–1900) • C. C. Whitlock (1901) • Unknown (1902) • No team (1903) • Unknown (1904–1906) • Frurip (1907) • No team (1908) • McCarthy (1909) • No team (1910–1919) • Ray Hanna (1920) • No team (1921–1922) • Arthur L. Strum (1923–1926) • Walter E. Marks (1927–1930) • Roy Goodlad (1930) • Arthur L. Strum (1931) • Walter E. Marks (1933–1941) • Arthur Strum (1942) • Albert Lewis & Jack Miller (1943) • Phil Brown (1944) • Bob LeCray (1945) • Walter E. Marks (1946–1948) • George Ashworth (1949–1950) • Mark Dean (1951–1954) • Paul Selge (1955) • Mark Dean (1956) • Bill Jones (1957–1965) • Jerry Huntsman (1966–1972) • Tom Harp (1973–1977) • Dick Jamieson (1978–1979) • Dennis Raetz (1980–1997) • Tim McGuire (1998–2004) • Lou West (2005–2007) • Trent Miles (2008– )
Categories:- 1929 births
- 2005 deaths
- Earlham Quakers football coaches
- Indiana State Sycamores football coaches
- Wabash Little Giants football players
- High school football coaches in the United States
- People from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
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