Thomas Ashford Bogle Jr. (March 7, 1890[1] – September 21, 1955) was an American football player and coach. He played as a lineman for the University of Michigan from 1910 to 1911 and served as the head football coach at DePauw University from 1913 to 1914.
He attended the University of Michigan, graduating from the Literary Department in 1912.[3] While attending Michigan, Bogle played as a lineman for Fielding H. Yost's Michigan Wolverines football team from 1910 to 1911.[4][5] He also competed for Michigan's track team, receiving varsity letters in track in his sophomore, junior, and senior years.[6]
DePauw
Bogle was hired as the head football coach at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana in August 1913.[7] In two years as the head coach at DePauw, he compiled a record of 9–7–1.[8] In 1913, he led DePauw to a 5–2–1 record and the championship of the Indiana Secondary Schools.[9] In the 1914 season opener, Bogle scheduled a game against his mentor, Fielding Yost. In the days before the game, an Indiana newspaper wrote:
"Coach Bogle of DePauw, learned the gridiron game from Hurry Up Yost. Bogle will have a chance to show how much of the game he knows when his team is pitted against the eleven of his former mentor at Ann Arbor Wednesday. Bogle was a lineman at the Wolverine institution."[10]
DePauw lost to Michigan by a score of 58 to 0.[11]
Later years
At the time of the 1920 and 1930 United States Censuses, Bogle was living in Ann Arbor working as a school teacher.[12]
References
^Birth certificate for Thomas Ashford Bogle, Jr., born March 7, 1890, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ancestry.com. Michigan, Births and Christenings Index, 1867-1911 [database on-line].
^Draft registration card dated June 1917 for Thomas A. Bogle, born in Ann Arbor on March 7, 1890, living in Ann Arbor, serving with ROTC at Fort Sheridan. Ancestry.com. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Registration Location: Washtenaw County, Michigan; Roll: 1682903; Draft Board: 0.
^Census entry for Thomas Bogle and wife, Isabel Bogle. Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Year: 1930; Census Place: Detroit, Wayne, Michigan; Roll: 1033; Page: 14A; Enumeration District: 1074; Image: 862.0.