Joe Kerbel
| Joe Kerbel | |
|---|---|
| Biographical details | |
| Born | c. 1921 Seminole, OK |
| Died | March 20, 1973 (aged 51) |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1947-? ?-1951 1952-1954 1955-1957 1958-1959 1960-1970 |
Bartlesville HS Cleveland HS Breckenridge HS Amarillo HS Texas Tech (Assist.) West Texas A&M |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 68–42–1 |
| Statistics College Football Data Warehouse |
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Joe E. Kerbel (c. 1921 – March 20, 1973) was an American football coach. He is the winningest coach in West Texas A&M Buffaloes history.
After a successful coaching career at Bartlesville and Cleveland High School in Oklahoma, Kerbel became head coach at Breckenridge High School in 1952. Breckenridge had won its first 3A state title in 1951 under coach Cooper Robbins who had just left for Texas A&M, raising the expectations high for Kerbel. He did not disappoint, as he won two additional state championships in 1952 and 1954. He then left for Texas football powerhouse Amarillo High School, which had won four state championships under coaches Blair Cherry and Howard Lynch.
After coaching at Amarillo High School for three seasons, Kerbel became an assistant under DeWitt Weaver at Texas Tech University in 1957. He then took over a West Texas A&M football program in 1960 that had won just two games in two years under head coach Clark Jarnagin. Kerbel turned the program around, amassing a 68-42-1 record the next eleven years and winning two bowl games, the 1962 Sun Bowl and 1967 Junior Rose Bowl, along the way. Notable players for Kerbel included Mercury Morris - Dwain Thomas and Jerry Don Logan. Kerbel retired in 1971 after the school chose not to renew his contract. He was succeeded by Gene Mayfield, a native of Quitaque in Briscoe County, Texas. Kerbel died of a heart attack at the age of fifty-one.
Head coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | Coaches# | AP° | ||
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| West Texas A&M Buffaloes (Independent) (1960–1970) | |||||||||
| 1960 | West Texas A&M | 3–7 | |||||||
| 1961 | West Texas A&M | 6–4 | |||||||
| 1962 | West Texas A&M | 9–2 | W Sun Bowl | ||||||
| 1963 | West Texas A&M | 4–4–1 | |||||||
| 1964 | West Texas A&M | 4–6 | |||||||
| 1965 | West Texas A&M | 6–4 | |||||||
| 1966 | West Texas A&M | 7–3 | |||||||
| 1967 | West Texas A&M | 8–3 | W Junior Rose Bowl | ||||||
| 1968 | West Texas A&M | 8–2 | |||||||
| 1969 | West Texas A&M | 6–4 | |||||||
| 1970 | West Texas A&M | 7–3 | |||||||
| Total: | 68–42–1 | ||||||||
| National championship Conference title Conference division title | |||||||||
| †Indicates BCS bowl, Bowl Alliance or Bowl Coalition game. #Rankings from final Coaches' Poll. | |||||||||
Further reading
- Cashion, Ty (1998). Pigskin Pulpit: A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches. Austin: Texas State Historical Association. ISBN 0-87611-168-1.
- Harris, Jack (1990). A Passion for Victory, The Coaching Life of Texas Legend Joe Kerbel. Dallas: Taylor Publishing Company.
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