Ray B. McCandless
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McCandless pictured in The Key 1924, Bowling Green yearbook
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| Sport(s) | Football, basketball, baseball |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born | October 6, 1889 Broken Bow, Nebraska |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist.[1] York, Nebraska |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| ? | Nebraska Wesleyan |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1919 | Chadron State |
| 1920–1922 | Nebraska Wesleyan |
| 1923 | Bowling Green State Normal |
| 1924 | Bethany (WV) |
| Basketball | |
| 1920–1923 | Nebraska Wesleyan |
| 1923–1924 | Bowling Green State Normal |
| 1924–1925 | Bethany (WV) |
| Baseball | |
| 1924 | Bowling Green State Normal |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 23–24–4 (football) 60–43 (basketball) 2–2–2 (baseball) |
| Statistics | |
Raymond Beebe McCandless (October 6, 1889 – January 8, 1931) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the head football coach at Chadron State College in 1919, at Nebraska Wesleyan University from 1920 to 1922, at Bowling Green State Normal School—now Bowling Green State University— in 1923, and at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia for the 1924 season, and compiling a career college football record of 23–24–4. McCandless was also the head basketball coach at Nebraska Wesleyan from 1920 to 1923, at Bowling Green State Normal during the 1923–24 season, and at Bethany for the 1924–25 season, amassing a career college basketball record of tallying a mark of 60–43. In addition, he was the head baseball coach at Bowling Green State Normal in the spring of 1924, tallying a mark of 2–2–2. McCandless played football at Nebraska Wesleyan.[2]
Head coaching record
Football
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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| Chadron State Eagles (Independent) (1919) | |||||||||
| 1919 | Chadron State | 2–3 | |||||||
| Chadron State: | 2–3 | ||||||||
| Nebraska Wesleyan Prairie Wolves () (1920–1922) | |||||||||
| 1920 | Nebraska Wesleyan | 6–2–2 | |||||||
| 1921 | Nebraska Wesleyan | 7–3 | |||||||
| 1922 | Nebraska Wesleyan | 4–4–1 | |||||||
| Nebraska Wesleyan: | 17–9–3 | ||||||||
| Bowling Green State Normal (Northwestern Ohio Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1923) | |||||||||
| 1923 | Bowling Green State Normal | 3–5 | |||||||
| Bowling Green: | 3–5 | ||||||||
| Bethany Bison () (1924) | |||||||||
| 1924 | Bethany | 1–7–1 | |||||||
| Bowling Green: | 1–7–1 | ||||||||
| Total: | 23–24–4 | ||||||||
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