Roland Ortmayer
Biographical details | |
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Born | College Park, Maryland, U.S. | August 22, 1917
Died | October 8, 2008 | (aged 91)
Playing career | |
Football | |
1937 | Northwestern |
Position(s) | Halfback |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1940 | Highland Park HS (IL) |
1941 | Dobyns-Bennett HS (TN) (assistant) |
1946–1947 | William Penn |
1948–1990 | La Verne |
Basketball | |
1946–1948 | William Penn |
Baseball | |
1946–1948 | William Penn |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 182–209–8 (college football) 7–31 (college basketball) 5–20 (college baseball) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
Football 2 SCIAC (1975, 1982) | |
Roland J. Ortmayer (August 22, 1917 – October 8, 2008) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at William Penn University in Oskaloosa, Iowa from 1946 to 1947 and the University of La Verne in La Verne, California from 1948 to 1990.[1] Ortmayer was noted for his unorthodox approach to the sport of football. He held non-mandatory practices and did not require offseason weight training for his players.[2] When he retired, his career record of 182–209–8 gave him the most loses of any college football coach in history. His record for career losses was surpassed by Watson Brown, who retired with 211 losses in 2015.[3]
Ortmayer taught and coached at Highland Park High School in Highland Park, Illinois before he was hired, in 1941, as an assistant coach at Dobyns-Bennett High School in Kingsport, Tennessee.[4]
Head coaching record
College football
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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William Penn Quakers (Iowa Conference) (1946–1947) | |||||||||
1946 | William Penn | 0–6 | 0–4 | 13th | |||||
1947 | William Penn | 0–8 | 0–6 | 13th | |||||
William Penn: | 0–14 | 0–10 | |||||||
La Verne Leopards (NAIA Division II independent) (1948–1970) | |||||||||
1948 | La Verne | 3–5 | |||||||
1949 | La Verne | 5–3–2 | |||||||
1950 | La Verne | 3–5 | |||||||
1951 | La Verne | 5–3 | |||||||
1952 | La Verne | 5–3–1 | |||||||
1953 | La Verne | 3–7 | |||||||
1954 | La Verne | 2–6 | |||||||
1955 | La Verne | 5–4 | |||||||
1956 | La Verne | 3–6 | |||||||
1957 | La Verne | 3–7–1 | |||||||
1958 | La Verne | 5–3–1 | |||||||
1959 | La Verne | 3–6 | |||||||
1960 | La Verne | 4–5 | |||||||
1961 | La Verne | 7–2 | |||||||
1962 | La Verne | 6–2 | |||||||
1963 | La Verne | 3–5 | |||||||
1964 | La Verne | 5–4 | |||||||
1965 | La Verne | 5–3 | |||||||
1966 | La Verne | 3–6 | |||||||
1967 | La Verne | 6–3 | |||||||
1968 | La Verne | 7–2 | |||||||
1969 | La Verne | 5–4 | |||||||
1970 | La Verne | 5–4 | |||||||
La Verne Leopards (Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) (1971–1990) | |||||||||
1971 | La Verne | 1–6–1 | 1–3 | 5th | |||||
1972 | La Verne | 6–3 | 3–2 | 3rd | |||||
1973 | La Verne | 4–5 | 3–2 | T–2nd | |||||
1974 | La Verne | 5–5 | 3–2 | 3rd | |||||
1975 | La Verne | 6–3–1 | 4–0–1 | T–1st | |||||
1976 | La Verne | 5–4 | 3–2 | T–2nd | |||||
1977 | La Verne | 4–5 | 2–3 | 4th | |||||
1978 | La Verne | 1–7 | 1–4 | 5th | |||||
1979 | La Verne | 4–5 | 2–3 | T–4th | |||||
1980 | La Verne | 2–8 | 1–4 | 5th | |||||
1981 | La Verne | 2–7 | 1–4 | T–4th | |||||
1982 | La Verne | 8–1 | 4–1 | 1st | |||||
1983 | La Verne | 3–5 | 2–3 | T–3rd | |||||
1984 | La Verne | 6–3 | 2–1–2[n 1] | 3rd | |||||
1985 | La Verne | 4–5 | 2–3[n 1] | 4th | |||||
1986 | La Verne | 6–3 | 3–1–1[n 1] | T–2nd | |||||
1987 | La Verne | 3–6 | 2–2–1[n 1] | 3rd | |||||
1988 | La Verne | 3–6 | 2–3[n 1] | 4th | |||||
1989 | La Verne | 4–5 | 3–1–1[n 1] | T–2nd | |||||
1990 | La Verne | 4–5 | 2–2–1[n 1] | 3rd | |||||
La Verne: | 182–195–8 | 46–46–7 | |||||||
Total: | 182–209–8 | ||||||||
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth |
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g From 1984 to 1990, the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) football schedule included multiple head-to-head meetings each season. In 1984 and 1985, each conference member played two other conference members twice. From 1986 to 1990, each conference member played one other conference member twice. A head-to-head sweep of the two games in one season counted as one win for the winner and one loss for the loser in the conference standings. A split of the two games counted as a tie for each team.
References
- ^ "Roland Ortmayer". La Verne Leopards. 9 October 2008. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ^ "A Most Usual Man—Roland Ortmayer Has Been Touching Players' Live At Division III La Verne For Four Decades". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ^ "Losing, his way". ESPN. 24 September 2014. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ^ "Northwestern Graduate Named To Succeed Horvath". Kingsport Times. Kingsport, Tennessee. August 22, 1941. p. 2. Retrieved October 15, 2019 – via Newspapers.com
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