Henry B. Hucles

Henry B. Hucles

Biographical details
Born	(1897-11-11)November 11, 1897 Petersburg, Virginia, U.S.
Died	September 11, 1979(1979-09-11) (aged 81) Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Playing career
Football
1919	Virginia Union
1920–1921	NYU
Position(s)	Quarterback, halfback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1919–1920	Virginia Union
1921–1922	Shaw
1923–1925	Prairie View State
1926–1942	Virginia Union
Basketball
?–1950	Virginia Union
Baseball
1925	Prairie View A&M
?	Virginia Union
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1926–1950	Virginia Union

Henry Boyd Hucles Jr. (November 11, 1897 – September 11, 1979) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Virginia Union University from 1919 to 1920 and again from 1926 to 1942 and at Prairie View A&M University from 1923 to 1925. Hucles was also the athletic director at Virginia Union from 1926 to 1950. His son, Henry B. Hucles III, became a suffragan bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island.

He was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.

Early life and education

Hucles was born in Petersburg, Virginia on November 11, 1897. In 1917, he studied at Wayland Academy in Washington D.C. before attending studying physics at Virginia Union University from 1919 to 1920. While at Virginia Union he founded the Zeta chapter of Omega Psi Phi and earned All-American honors as a quarterback for the Virginia Union Panthers. As a senior, he was player-coach for the team. He graduated with a BSc from Springfield College in 1933. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Richmond Coliseum.

Coaching career

Hucles became the first Virginia Union University student athlete to then become a coach at the school, serving as the player football coach from 1919 to 1920 and then as the head football coach from 1926 to 1942 as well as athletic director and a professor of health and physical education. From 1938 to 1943, he also served as Virginia Union's basketball coach, leading the team to a Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) title in the 1938–39 season. From 1942 to 1943, future Baseball Hall of Famer Larry Doby, played on the Virginia Union basketball team under Hucles.

In 1921, he spent a year coaching at Shaw University.

Hucles was the first head football coach at Prairie View A&M University in Prairie View, Texas and he held that position for two seasons, from 1924 until 1925. His career coaching record at Prairie View was 11–4–1.

Death

Hucles died in Brooklyn, New York in 1979.

Head coaching record

College

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs
Virginia Union Panthers (Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1919–1920)
1919	Virginia Union	5–1–1	1–1	3rd
1920	Virginia Union	6–2	2–1	2nd
Shaw Bears (Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1921–1922)
1921	Shaw		0–2	6th
1922	Shaw	5–2–1	1–1	T–3rd
Shaw:			1–3
Prairie View State Panthers (Southwestern Athletic Conference) (1923–1925)
1923	Prairie View State	5–2	3–2	3rd
1924	Prairie View State	5–1–1	3–1–1
1925	Prairie View State	6–3	3–2
Prairie View State:		16–6–1	9–5–1
Virginia Union Panthers (Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1926–1942)
1926	Virginia Union	6–1	6–1	2nd
1927	Virginia Union	5–2	5–2	3rd
1928	Virginia Union	2–6–1	2–3–1	5th
1929	Virginia Union	7–1	5–1	2nd
1930	Virginia Union	6–1–2	5–1–2	2nd
1931	Virginia Union	4–4–1	3–3–1	10th
1932	Virginia Union	7–1–1	6–1–1	T–2nd
1933	Virginia Union	4–3–4	4–2–3	4th
1934	Virginia Union	4–2–2	4–2–2	4th
1935	Virginia Union	4–3–1	4–3–1	6th
1936	Virginia Union	2–5–1	2–5–1	T–9th
1937	Virginia Union	7–2	7–2	2nd
1938	Virginia Union	5–2–2	4–2–2	4th
1939	Virginia Union	5–4	3–4	9th
1940	Virginia Union	6–2–2	4–2–2	3rd
1941	Virginia Union	4–4	2–4	7th
1942	Virginia Union	3–5	1–4	8th
Virginia Union:		92–51–18	70–44–16
Total:

See also

• List of college football head coaches with non-consecutive tenure