Lloyd Cardwell
Appearance
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Position: | Halfback, end | ||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||
Born: | Republic, Kansas, U.S. | April 19, 1913||||||||||||
Died: | November 10, 1997 Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. | (aged 84)||||||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||||||
Weight: | 195 lb (88 kg) | ||||||||||||
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High school: | Seward (Seward, Nebraska) | ||||||||||||
College: | Nebraska | ||||||||||||
NFL draft: | 1937 / round: 1 / pick: 7 | ||||||||||||
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Lloyd Raymond Cardwell (April 19, 1913 – November 10, 1997) was an American football player and coach. He played college football for the Nebraska Cornhuskers and professionally in the National Football League (NFL) with the Detroit Lions for seven seasons. He was drafted in the first round of the 1937 NFL Draft with the seventh overall pick.[1] After his playing days, Cardwell was the head football coach at Omaha University—now known as the University of Nebraska Omaha from 1947 to 1959, compiling a record of 57–51. His 1954 team was undefeated and won the Tangerine Bowl. Cardwell also coached track and field at Omaha.[2]
Head coaching record
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[edit]Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Omaha Indians (Independent) (1947–1958) | |||||||||
1947 | Omaha | 2–5 | |||||||
1948 | Omaha | 5–4 | |||||||
1949 | Omaha | 3–5 | |||||||
1950 | Omaha | 6–3 | |||||||
1951 | Omaha | 4–5 | |||||||
1952 | Omaha | 5–4 | |||||||
1953 | Omaha | 6–2 | |||||||
1954 | Omaha | 10–0 | W Tangerine | ||||||
1955 | Omaha | 8–1 | |||||||
1956 | Omaha | 6–2 | |||||||
1957 | Omaha | 1–7 | |||||||
1958 | Omaha | 0–8 | |||||||
Omaha Indians (Central Intercollegiate Conference) (1959) | |||||||||
1959 | Omaha | 1–7 | 1–4 | T–5th | |||||
Omaha: | 57–53 | 1–4 | |||||||
Total: | 57–53 |
References
[edit]- ^ "1937 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
- ^ "Saying Goodbye to a Legend," Gateway Newspaper November 14, 1997.
External links
[edit]- Career statistics and player information from NFL.com · Pro Football Reference
Categories:
- 1913 births
- 1997 deaths
- American football ends
- American football halfbacks
- Detroit Lions players
- Nebraska Cornhuskers football players
- Nebraska Cornhuskers men's track and field athletes
- Nebraska–Omaha Mavericks football coaches
- Omaha Mavericks track and field coaches
- People from Republic County, Kansas
- People from Seward County, Nebraska
- Coaches of American football from Nebraska
- Players of American football from Nebraska
- Track and field athletes from Nebraska
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American football running back, 1910s birth stubs