Frank Winters (basketball)

Frank Winters
Biographical details

Sport(s)	Football, basketball
Born	(1894-03-31)March 31, 1894 Fort Madison, Iowa
Died	July 29, 1980(1980-07-29) (aged 86) Quincy, Illinois
Alma mater	Springfield (MA)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1908–1909	Springfield (MA)
1910–1912	Central Missouri
1912–1913	Madison HS
1914–1920	Rockford HS
1920–1922	Illinois
1922–1928	Oak Park HS
Head coaching record
Overall	Basketball (120-22, .833) Football (83-26-9, .761)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
IHSA Boys Basketball Championship (1919) IHSA Boys Track & Field Championship (1923, 1924)

Frank Winters was a former high school football and basketball coach as well as a college basketball and football coach in the states of Illinois and Wisconsin.

Madison High School (WI)

Winters began coaching football in 1912 at Madison High School in Madison Wisconsin. His 2 year stay in Madison brought forth an undefeated season as well as a weather shortened season, compiling a total record of 9 wins and 1 loss.^[1]

Rockford Central High School

Winters left Madison and moved south to Rockford, Illinois and began coaching at Rockford Central High School. While at Rockford, Winters' basketball teams compiled 95 wins while suffering only 12 losses.^[2] During the 1918-19 season, Winters guided his team to an I.H.S.A. state championship with a 39 - 20^[3] victory over Springfield High School.^[4] During this same time frame, Winters also coached Rockford's football team. Between 1914 and 1919, his football teams won 39 games, lost 12 while tying 3. Rockford joined the Big 7 conference in 1917, with Rockford winning the football title the same year.

University of Illinois

In 1920, Winters departed Rockford and became the head basketball coach of the University of Illinois.^[5] During his two-year stint as coach of the Fighting Illini, he had a 25-12 record.^[6]

Oak Park & River Forest

After departing from the University of Illinois, Winters returned to high school coaching at Oak Park & River Forest High School. While coaching the Huskies, Winters headed the football and track & field teams. His football teams compiled an overall record of 35 wins, 13 losses and 6 ties. The track & field teams won 2 Illinois Interscholastic state titles.^[7]

High school records

Basketball

Season	Team	Season Record	Postseason
1915-16	Rockford Central (H.S)	19-2	Elite Eight
1916-17	Rockford Central (H.S)	19-2	Sweet 16
1917-18	Rockford Central (H.S)	19-2	Sweet 16
1918-19	Rockford Central (H.S)	23-1	State Champs
1919-20	Rockford Central (H.S)	15-5	Sweet 16
Total	Rockford Central (H.S.)	95-12	0.887

Football

Season	Team	Season Record
1912	Madison High School (WI)	6-0-0
1913	Madison High School (WI)	3-1-0
1914	Rockford Central (H.S)	5-5-0
1915	Rockford Central (H.S)	7-1-1
1916	Rockford Central (H.S)	7-3-1
1917	Rockford Central (H.S)	9-1-0
1918	Rockford Central (H.S)	3-0-1
1919	Rockford Central (H.S)	8-2-0
1922	Oak Park & River Forest (H.S)	7-0-1
1923	Oak Park & River Forest (H.S)	7-1-0
1924	Oak Park & River Forest (H.S)	7-0-1
1925	Oak Park & River Forest (H.S)	6-1-1
1926	Oak Park & River Forest (H.S)	0-5-2
1927	Oak Park & River Forest (H.S)	6-1-0
1928	Oak Park & River Forest (H.S)	2-5-1
Total		83-26-9

Track & Field

Season	Team	Season Record
1923	Oak Park & River Forest (H.S)	State Champion
1924	Oak Park & River Forest (H.S)	State Champion
Total	Oak Park & River Forest (H.S)

Collegiate records

Basketball

Season	Team	Season Record	Conf. Record	Place
1920-21	Illinois	11-7	7-5	T-4th
1921-22	Illinois	14-5	7-5	T-4th
Total	Illinois	25-12	14-10

References

↑ Football Madison Style By Wayne Kelliher, ISBN 1932542051, 9781932542059
↑ http://www.ihsa.org/school/records/sum1822.htm
↑ http://www.ihsa.org/activity/bkb/records/team1-2.htm
↑ http://www.marchmadness.org/records/yearly/1919b.htm
↑ http://www.fightingillini.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/ill-all-century-team-coaches.html
↑ Illinois Basketball Records
↑ Oak Park and River Forest coaching records

Central Missouri Mules head basketball coaches

Joe Ferguson (1905–1907)
Guy Lowman (1907–1908)
Appleton A. Mason (1908–1910)
F. J. Winters (1910–1912)
Phog Allen (1912–1919)
Willard Greim (1919–1923)
Tad Reid (1924–1938)
Tom Scott (1938–1942)
Clarence Whiteman (1942–1943)
Robert White (1943–1945)
Tom Scott (1945–1946)
Earl Keth (1946–1961)
Gene Bartow (1961–1964)
Joe B. Hall (1964–1965)
Chuck Smith (1965–1966)
Norm Short (1966–1972)
Jim Kampen (1972–1975)
Tom Smith (1975–1980)
Lynn Nance (1980–1985)
Jim Wooldridge (1985–1991)
Jerry Hughes # (1991–1992)
Bob Sundvold (1992–1996)
Don Doucette (1996–2002)
Kim Anderson (2002–2014)
Doug Karleskint (2014– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball head coaches

Elwood Brown (1905–1906)
Frank L. Pinckney (1906–1907)
Fletcher Lane (1907–1908)
Herb Juul (1908–1910)
Thomas E. Thompson (1910–1912)
Ralph Jones (1912–1920)
Frank Winters (1920–1922)
J. Craig Ruby (1922–1936)
Douglas R. Mills (1936–1947)
Harry Combes (1947–1967)
Harv Schmidt (1967–1974)
Gene Bartow (1974–1975)
Lou Henson (1975–1996)
Lon Kruger (1996–2000)
Bill Self (2000–2003)
Bruce Weber (2003–2012)
John Groce (2012– )

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