Harry Mehre

Harry Mehre
Sport(s)	Football, basketball
Biographical details
Born	September 19, 1901(1901-09-19)
Place of birth	Huntington, Indiana
Died	September 27, 1978(1978-09-27) (aged 77)
Place of death	Atlanta, Georgia
Playing career
Football 1919–1921 1922–1923 Basketball 1919–1922	Notre Dame Minneapolis Marines Notre Dame
Position(s)	Center (football) Center (basketball)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football 1923 1923 1924–1927 1928–1937 1938–1945 Basketball 1923	Minneapolis Marines St. Thomas (MN) (line) Georgia (assistant) Georgia Mississippi St. Thomas (MN)
Head coaching record
Overall	98–60–7 (college) 4–5–2 (NFL)
Statistics
College Football Data Warehouse

Harry J. Mehre (September 18, 1901 – September 27, 1978) was an American football and basketball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Georgia (1928–1937) and the University of Mississippi (1938–1945), compiling a career college football record of 98–60–7. Mehre also served as the head coach of the Minneapolis Marines of the NFL in 1923, tallying a mark of 4–5–2.

Mehre attended the University of Notre Dame and played center on both the football and basketball teams (serving as co-captain for the 1919–1920 basketball team and captain of the 1920–1921 team). He graduated in 1922 and played in that year and in 1923 with the Minneapolis Marines, also serving as head coach in 1923. Mehre was also a football line coach and head basketball coach at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.

In 1924, Mehre came to the University of Georgia as an assistant coach under George Woodruff. Upon Woodruff's retirement, Mehre became head coach and compiled a 59–34–6 record over ten years. He also was Georgia's athletic director. After leaving Georgia, Mehre served as the head coach at the University of Mississippi from 1938 to 1945, compiling a 39–26–1 record there.

Mehre was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1971. He died in Atlanta in 1978. In 1986, Butts–Mehre Heritage Hall was dedicated on the University of Georgia campus in honor of Mehre and fellow Bulldogs coach Wally Butts.

Head coaching record

College

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs	AP#
Georgia Bulldogs (Southern Conference) (1928–1932)
1928	Georgia	4–5	2–4	17th
1929	Georgia	6–4	4–2	T–7th
1930	Georgia	7–2–1	3–2–1	10th
1931	Georgia	8–2	6–1	4th
1932	Georgia	2–5–2	2–4–2	15th
Georgia Bulldogs (Southeastern Conference) (1933–1937)
1933	Georgia	8–2	3–1	3rd
1934	Georgia	7–3	3–2	5th
1935	Georgia	6–4	2–4	11th
1936	Georgia	5–4–1	3–3	T–6th
1937	Georgia	6–3–2	1–2–2	10th
Georgia:		59–34–6	29–25–5
Ole Miss Rebels (Southeastern Conference) (1938–1945)
1938	Ole Miss	9–2	3–2	4th
1939	Ole Miss	7–2	2–2	T–5th
1940	Ole Miss	9–2	3–1	3rd
1941	Ole Miss	6–2–1	2–1–1	5th		17
1942	Ole Miss	2–7	0–5	T–11th
1943	Ole Miss	No team
1944	Ole Miss	2–6	2–3	7th
1945	Ole Miss	4–5	3–3	T–5th
Ole Miss:		39–26–1	15–17–1
Total:		98–60–7

Sources

• History of the University of Georgia, Thomas Walter Reed, Imprint: Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia, ca.1949, pp.3543-3561
• New Georgia Encyclopedia entry for George Woodruff

External links

• Harry Mehre at the College Football Data Warehouse