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Charles Thomas 
Sport(s) Football Biographical details Born c. 1872 Place of birth Omaha, Nebraska Died September 19, 1920 (aged 48) Place of death Omaha, Nebraska Playing career 1891–1892 Michigan Position(s) Guard Coaching career (HC unless noted) 1893–1894
1895
1901–1902Nebraska (assistant)
Nebraska
ArkansasHead coaching record Overall 15–11 Statistics College Football Data Warehouse Accomplishments and honors Championships 1 WIUFA (1895) Charles Ladd Thomas (c. 1872 – September 19, 1920) was an American football player and coach. A native of Omaha, Nebraska,[1] Thomas enrolled at the University of Michigan where he played at the guard position for the Michigan Wolverines football teams of 1891 and 1892.[2] After graduating from Michigan in 1893, Thomas returned to Nebraska where he served as an assistant football coach at the University of Nebraska under Frank Crawford in 1893 and 1894. In 1895, he took over as Nebraska's head football coach, posting a 6–3 record. From 1901 to 1902, he served as the head football coach at Arkansas, where he compiled a 9–8 record. As a head coach, his overall record was 15–11.
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Nebraska
After Frank Crawford left Nebraska to go to the University of Texas in 1894, Thomas became the head coach for the 1895 season. He remained the coach for one year and had a 6–3 record while winning a share of the Western Interstate University Football Association title. Thomas took the Nebraska football team on its first long road trip with a game in Butte, Montana to play Butte's local athletic club.[3]
Head coaching record
Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs Nebraska Bugeaters (Western Interstate University Football Association) (1895) 1895 Nebraska 6–3 2–1 T–1st Nebraska: 6–3 2–1 Arkansas Cardinals (Independent) (1901–1902) 1901 Arkansas 3–5 1902 Arkansas 6–3 Arkansas: 9–8 Total: 15–11 National Championship Conference Title Conference Division Title References
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Arkansas Razorbacks head football coaches John C. Futrall (1894–1896) • B. N. Wilson (1897–1898) • Colbert Searles (1899–1900) • Charles Thomas (1901–1902) • D. A. McDaniel (1903) • A. D. Brown (1904–1905) • Frank Longman (1906–1907) • Hugo Bezdek (1908–1912) • E. T. Pickering (1913–1914) • T. T. McConnell (1915–1916) • Norman C. Paine (1917–1918) • James B. Craig (1919) • George McLaren (1920–1921) • Francis Schmidt (1922–1928) • Fred Thomsen (1929–1941) • George Cole (1942) • John Tomlin (1943) • Glen Rose (1944–1945) • John Barnhill (1946–1949) • Otis Douglas (1950–1952) • Bowden Wyatt (1953–1954) • Jack Mitchell (1955–1957) • Frank Broyles (1958–1976) • Lou Holtz (1977–1983) • Ken Hatfield (1984–1989) • Jack Crowe (1990–1992) • Joe Kines # (1992) • Danny Ford (1993–1997) • Houston Nutt (1998–2007) • Reggie Herring # (2007) • Bobby Petrino (2008– )
Pound sign (#) denotes interim coach.Nebraska Cornhuskers head football coaches Langdon Frothingham (1890) • T. U. Lyman (1891) • J. S. Williams (1892) • Frank Crawford (1893–1894) • Charles Thomas (1895) • Eddie N. Robinson (1896–1897) • Fielding H. Yost (1898) • Alonzo Edwin Branch (1899) • Walter C. Booth (1900–1905) • Amos Foster (1906) • King Cole (1907–1910) • Ewald O. Stiehm (1911–1915) • E. J. Stewart (1916–1917) • William G. Kline (1918) • Henry Schulte (1919–1920) • Fred Dawson (1921–1924) • Ernest Bearg (1925–1928) • Dana X. Bible (1929–1936) • Biff Jones (1937–1941) • Glenn Presnell (1942) • Adolph J. Lewandowski (1943–1944) • George Clark (1945) • Bernie Masterson (1946–1947) • George Clark (1948) • Bill Glassford (1949–1955) • Pete Elliott (1956) • Bill Jennings (1957–1961) • Bob Devaney (1962–1972) • Tom Osborne (1973–1997) • Frank Solich (1998–2003) • Bo Pelini # (2003) • Bill Callahan (2004–2007) • Bo Pelini (2008– )
Pound sign (#) denotes interim coach.Categories:- 1870s births
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