Jimmie Keeling

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Name = Jimmie Keeling
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Title = Head coach
College = Hardin-Simmons
Sport = Football
Conference = ASC
CurrentRecord = 143-41-0
DateOfBirth = birth date and age|1935|8|10
Birthplace = flagicon|Texas San Angelo, TX
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OverallRecord = 143-41-0 (College)
182-125-12 (High school)
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CoachYears = 1966
1968-1969
1970-1971
1975-1978
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1990-"present"
CoachTeams = Elgin HS
Lubbock Estacado HS
Andrews HS
Lamar Consol. HS
San Angelo Central HS
John Tyler HS
Hardin-Simmons
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Jimmie Keeling (born birth date|1935|8|10 in San Angelo, Texas) is an American football coach. After a highly successful coaching career in Texas high school football, Keeling was chosen to revive the Hardin-Simmons Cowboys football program, which hadn't played a football game since 1963. Keeling has since become the winningest coach in school history.

Keeling graduated from Evant High School in 1953. He started his collegiate career at Tarleton State University, then a junior college, and finished his undergraduate work at Howard Payne University in 1958. His first coaching job came soon after, taking the reins as head coach and athletic director at Dublin in 1959.

Keeling had several stops in his early coaching career, namely at Tulia, Elgin, Lubbock Estacado, Andrews and Lamar Consolidated. His 1968 Lubbock Estacado squad went 14-0 and claimed the Class 3A state championship, beating Refugio High School 14-0. He also guided Lamar Consolidated to a regional championship in 1978.

In 1979 he overtook a storied football program at San Angelo Central, and remained there for 10 seasons. He guided the Bobcats all the way to the Class 5A regional championships in 1982 and in 1988, reached the state quarterfinals. Keeling's last high school stop was at John Tyler High School in Tyler, Texas for one year.

Hardin-Simmons chose Keeling to revive their football program in 1990, after a 37-year absence. Besides the inaugural 1990 season that went 3-6-0, Keeling's Hardin-Simmons Cowboys had 16 consecutive winning seasons. His teams have won 10 conference titles and played in 19 playoff games, and Keeling has been named conference coach of the year six times. He currently ranks 10th among active Division III coaches in career winning percentage and is 18th in career wins.

In 1995, Keeling was rewarded for his 30 years of excellence in high-school coaching when he was inducted into the Texas High School Coaches Association Hall of Honor. Keeling posted a career high school record of 182-125-12. [ [http://www.texasfootball.com/index.php?s=&change_well_id=2&url_article_id=1434 Dave Campbell's Texas Football: All-Time Coaching Records] ] In 1997, he became the school's all-time wins leader, surpassing the late Warren B. Woodson.

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* [http://hsuathletics.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/keeling_jimmie00.html Biography at HSU Athletics]