Ed Olle (February 12, 1904 – April 3, 1964) was a college baseball and college basketball player, a men's college basketball head coach, and an athletics director at The University of Texas at Austin.
Biographical details | |
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Born | (1904-02-12)February 12, 1904 |
Died | April 3, 1964(1964-04-03) (aged 60) |
Alma mater | University of Texas |
Playing career | |
Basketball | |
1926–27 | Texas |
Baseball | |
1926–27 | Texas |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1931–1934 | Texas |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
1956–1962 | Texas |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 49–18 |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
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Awards | |
2 All-Southwest Conference honors (Baseball 1926, 1927) | |
Olle played for Texas Longhorns men's basketball head coach E. J. "Doc" Stewart and for Texas baseball head coach William J. "Billy" Disch. He received all-Southwest Conference honors in baseball in 1926 and 1927.[1] Olle would go on to coach the Longhorns in basketball for three seasons (1931–34) following the departure of "Mysterious" Fred Walker in 1931.[2] His 1932–33 team finished the season as Southwest Conference champions with a 22–1 overall record and would many decades later receive retroactive recognition as that season's national champion in the Premo-Porretta Power Poll (the team playing as it did in an era preceding the existence of national basketball tournaments or polling).[2][3] After three seasons as head coach, Olle resigned and moved into a position in the UT Athletics Department, first under Texas football head coach and Athletics Director Jack Chevigny, and later under football coach and Athletics Director Dana X. Bible.[4] He was subsequently hired as UT Athletics Director in 1956 and remained in that position until 1962.[5]
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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1931–32 | Texas | 13–9 | 5–7 | 4th | |||||
1932–33 | Texas | 22–1 | 11–1 | 1st | Premo-Porretta National Champions | ||||
1933–34 | Texas | 14–8 | 6–6 | 3rd | |||||
Texas: | 49–18 (.731) | 22–14 (.611) | |||||||
Total: | 49–18 (.731) | ||||||||
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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Texas Longhorns men's basketball head coaches | |
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Texas Longhorns athletic directors | |
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