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Ewing Y. Freeland
Biographical details
Freeland pictured in the 1929 La Ventana, Texas Tech yearbook
Born	(1887-01-01)January 1, 1887 Turnersville, Texas, U.S.
Died	August 15, 1963(1963-08-15) (aged 76) Brownwood, Texas, U.S.
Playing career
Football
1904–1906	Daniel Baker
1908–1911	Vanderbilt

Position(s)	Tackle (football) First baseman (baseball)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1912–1914	Daniel Baker
1915	TCU
1919–1920	Austin
1921	Millsaps
1922–1923	SMU
1925–1928	Texas Tech
1936–1938	Austin
Basketball
1915–1916	TCU
1921–1922	Millsaps
Baseball
1916	TCU
1923–1924	SMU
1926–1927	Texas Tech

Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1925–1927	Texas Tech
1935–1938	Austin

Head coaching record
Overall	77–49–16 (football) 2–11 (basketball) 50–47–3 (baseball)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Football 1 TIAA (1920) 1 SWC (1923)
Awards
3× All-Southern (1909, 1910, 1911)

Ewing Young "Big 'un" Freeland (January 1, 1887 – August 15, 1953) was an American football and baseball player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the head football coach at Daniel Baker College (1912–1914), Texas Christian University (1915), Austin College (1919–1920, 1936–1938), Millsaps College (1921), Southern Methodist University (1922–1923, with Ray Morrison), and Texas Tech University (1925–1928), compiling a career college football record of 77–49–16. Freeland was also the head basketball coach at TCU for one season in 1915–16 and at Millsaps for one season, in 1921–22. In addition, he was the head baseball coach at TCU (1916), SMU (1923–1924), and Texas Tech (1926–1927), amassing a career college baseball record of 50–47–3.

Biography

Freeland was born on January 1, 1887, in Turnersville, Texas and died on August 15, 1953, in Brownwood, Texas. He played football and baseball at Vanderbilt University, from which he graduated in 1912. He weighed some 200 pounds. He was nominated though not selected for an Associated Press All-Time Southeast 1869-1919 era team. In 1915, Freeland coached football at TCU, compiling a 4–5 record. In 1922 and 1923, Freeland co-coached the SMU Mustangs football team with his former teammate at Vanderbilt, Ray Morrison. The two effectively shared the heading coaching duties, with Morrison focusing on the backfield and ends, and Freeland mentoring the linemen. In 1925, Freeland became the first coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, then known as the Matadors. He coached football at Texas Tech from 1925 to 1928, where he had a 21–10–6 record. Freeland was also the first head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders baseball team and Texas Tech's first athletic director. He is credited with designing Texas Tech's Double T logo and had it put on the sweaters of football players.

Head coaching record

Football


Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Daniel Baker (Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1912–1914)
1912	Daniel Baker	4–1–2
1913	Daniel Baker	1–3–3
1914	Daniel Baker	7–2
Daniel Baker:		12–6–5
TCU Horned Frogs (Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1915)
1915	TCU	4–5	2–0
TCU:		4–5	2–0
Austin Kangaroos (Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1919–1920)
1919	Austin	4–3–1
1920	Austin	6–3		1st
Millsaps Majors (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1921)
1921	Millsaps	1–5–1	0–3	T–26th
Millsaps:		1–5–1	0–3
SMU Mustangs (Southwest Conference) (1922–1923)
1922	SMU	6–3–1	2–2	T–3rd
1923	SMU	9–0	5–0	1st
SMU:		15–3–1	7–2
Texas Tech Matadors (Independent) (1925–1928)
1925	Texas Tech	6–1–2
1926	Texas Tech	6–1–3
1927	Texas Tech	5–4
1928	Texas Tech	4–4–1
Texas Tech:		21–10–6
Austin Kangaroos (Texas Conference) (1936–1938)
1936	Austin	4–4–2	3–3	4th
1937	Austin	8–2	6–1	2nd
1938	Austin	2–8	2–5
Austin:		24–20–3	11–8
Total:		77–49–16
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth

Baseball

Statistics overview
Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
TCU Horned Frogs (1916)
1916	TCU	9–7
TCU:		9–7
SMU Mustangs (Southwest Conference) (1923–1924)
1923	SMU	16–10	14–6	2nd
1924	SMU	10–19	5–16	6th
SMU:		26–25	19–22
Texas Tech Matadors (1926–1927)
1926	Texas Tech	11–2–1
1927	Texas Tech	4–9–1
Texas Tech:		15–11–2
Total:		50–43–2

References

"Youngs-Ireland, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Texas". Ancestry.com. Retrieved April 2, 2011.
"U-T Greats On All-Time Southeast Team". Kingsport Post. July 31, 1969.
NEA Service (December 21, 1923). "Texas Turns Out Latest Wonder Team of Gridion". Evening Independent. Retrieved April 2, 2011.
Andrews, Ruth Horn (1956). The First Thirty Years: a History of Texas Technological College. Lubbock, Texas: The Texas Tech Press. p. 298.
"Double T Symbol". Texas Tech University. Retrieved September 24, 2008.

External links

Ewing Y. Freeland at Find a Grave

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v t e SMU Mustangs head baseball coaches
Ewing Y. Freeland (1923–1924) James W. St. Clair (1927) James W. St. Clair (1931–1933) Roswell G. Higginbotham (1936–1942) Redman Hume (1945) Lloyd Messersmith (1946–1948) Alex Hooks (1949–1964) Bob Finley (1965–1976) Steve Adair (1977–1980)

v t e Texas Tech Red Raiders athletic directors
Ewing Y. Freeland (1925–1927) Grady Higginbotham (1927–1929) Pete Cawthon (1930–1940) Morley Jennings (1941–1951) DeWitt Weaver (1952–1960) Polk Robison (1960–1970) J. T. King (1970–1978) Dick Tamburo (1978–1980) John Conley (1980–1985) James "T" Jones (1985–1992) Robert Bockrath (1992–1995) Gerald Myers (1996–2011) Kirby Hocutt (2011– )

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Ewing Y. Freeland (1925–1928)
Grady Higginbotham (1929)
Pete Cawthon (1930–1940)
Dell Morgan (1941–1950)
DeWitt Weaver (1951–1960)
J. T. King (1961–1969)
Jim Carlen (1970–1974)
Steve Sloan (1975–1977)
Rex Dockery (1978–1980)
Jerry Moore (1981–1985)
David McWilliams (1986)
Spike Dykes (1986–1999)
Mike Leach (2000–2009)
Ruffin McNeill # (2009)
Tommy Tuberville (2010–2012)
Chris Thomsen # (2012)
Kliff Kingsbury (2013–2018)
Matt Wells (2019–2021)
Sonny Cumbie # (2021)
Joey McGuire (2022–present)

# denotes interim head coach

v t e Texas Tech Red Raiders head baseball coaches
Ewing Y. Freeland (1926–1927) Grady Higginbotham (1928–1929) No team (1930–1953) Beattie Feathers (1954–1960) Berl Huffman (1961–1967) Kal Segrist (1968–1983) Gary Ashby (1984–1986) Larry Hays (1987–2008) Dan Spencer (2009–2012) Tim Tadlock (2013– )

v t e 1909 College Football All-Southern Team composite selections
Backfield	QB Doc Fenton HB Aubrey Lanier HB Ray Morrison FB Will Metzger
Line	E Silas Williams† E Ewing Y. Freeland T Harry Esslinger T Malvern Griffin G Eric Cheape G T. C. Locke C J. E. Lucas
† = Unanimous selection

v t e 1910 College Football All-Southern Team composite selections
Backfield	QB Chigger Browne HB Ray Morrison HB Aubrey Lanier FB Bradley Streit†
Line	E Jenks Gillem E Bill Neely T Ewing Y. Freeland T Pat Patterson G Will Metzger† G Earl Kinnebrew C Eugene Caton
† = Unanimous selection

v t e 1911 College Football All-Southern Team composite selections
Backfield	QB Ray Morrison† HB Lewie Hardage† HB Bob McWhorter† FB John E. Davis
Line	E Jenks Gillem E By Walton T Ewing Y. Freeland† T Rube Barker G Will Metzger G Big Chief Bonner C Hugh Jackson Morgan†
† = Unanimous selection

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