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{{Short description|American football player and sports coach (1895–1980)}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Adrian Lindsey
| image = Adrian Lindsey.png
| caption alt =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1895|8|15}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1895|8|15}}
| birth_place =
| birth_place = [[Vienna, Illinois]], U.S.
| death_date = October 1980
| death_date = {{death date and age |1980|10|2 |1895|8|15}}
| death_place =
| death_place = [[Eudora, Kansas]], U.S.
| sport = [[American football|Football]]
| current_team alma_mater =
| player_sport1 = Football
| current_title =
| player_years2 = 1914–1916
| current_record =
| player_team2 = [[Kansas Jayhawks football|Kansas]]
| overall_record = 42–49–14
| player_positions = [[Halfback (American football)|Halfback]], [[quarterback]]
| bowl_record =
| coach_sport1 = Football
| CFbDWID = 1387
| coach_years2 = 1919–1921
| championships =
| coach_team2 = [[Kansas Jayhawks football|Kansas]] (assistant)
| awards =
| coach_years3 = 1922–1926
| player_years = 1914–1916
| player_teams coach_team3 = [[KansasBethany JayhawksTerrible Swedes football|KansasBethany (KS)]]
| coach_years4 = 1927–1931
| player_positions = [[Halfback (American football)|Halfback]], [[quarterback]]
| coach_team4 = [[Oklahoma Sooners football|Oklahoma]]
| coach_years = 1919&ndash;1921<br>1927&ndash;1931<br>1932<br>1932&ndash;1938
| coach_years5 = 1932
| coach_teams = [[Kansas Jayhawks football|Kansas]] (assistant)<br>[[Oklahoma Sooners football|Oklahoma]]<br>[[Kansas Jayhawks football|Kansas]] (assistant)<br>[[Kansas Jayhawks football|Kansas]]
| coach_team5 = [[Kansas Jayhawks football|Kansas]] (assistant)
| CFBHOF_year =
| coach_years6 = 1932–1938
| CFBHOF_id =
| coach_team6 = [[Kansas Jayhawks football|Kansas]]
| coach_sport7 = Baseball
| coach_years8 = 1921
| coach_team8 = [[Kansas Jayhawks baseball|Kansas]]
| overall_record = 66–64–16 (football)<br>13–2 (baseball)
| bowl_record =
| tournament_record =
| championships = 1 [[Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference|KCAC]] (1925)
| awards =
| coaching_records =
}}
'''Adrian Hobart "Ad" Lindsey''' (August 15, 1895 &ndash; October 2, 1980) was an [[American football]] player and coach of football and [[baseball]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Former KU, Bethany grid coach 'Ad' Lindsey dies |date=October 3, 1980 |work=[[The Salina Journal]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7526188/former_ku_bethany_grid_coach_ad/ |via=[[Newspapers.com]] }}</ref> He served as the head football coach at [[Bethany College (Kansas)|Bethany College]] in [[Lindsborg, Kansas]] from 1922 to 1926, at the [[University of Oklahoma]] from 1927 to 1931, and at the [[University of Kansas]] from 1932 to 1938, compiling a career [[college football]] record of 42&ndash;49&ndash;1466–64–16. Lindsey was also the head baseball coach at Kansas for one season in 1921, tallying a mark of 13–2.
 
==Early life==
[[File:111-SC-153740 89th Division football team wins championship match from St. Nazaire team, final score 13-0. Parc des Princes, Auteuil, Paris, Seine, France (cropped).jpg|thumb|230px|left|89th Division team, Lindsey at top left]]
Lindsey played football at the University of Kansas from 1914 to 1916. During [[World War I]], he served as a [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] officer in France. As part of the occupation force after the Armistice, Lindsey played right halfback for the [[89th Infantry Division (United States)|89th Division]] squad that won the AEF football championship in March 1919. [[Bob Higgins (American football)|Bob Higgins]], [[Paul Withington]], [[Charles H. Gerhardt|Charles Gerhardt]] and [[George Clark (American football coach)|George Clark]] were also members of the squad.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theworldwar.org/sites/default/files/2022-01/wwi-kansas-history-football.pdf |title=Kansas Football "Over There" |first=Doran L. |last=Cart |date=Autumn 2006 |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=194–199 |magazine=Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains |access-date=August 8, 2024}}</ref>
 
==Coaching career==
Lindsey began the 1932 season at Kansas as an assistant to [[Homer Woodson Hargiss]]. Hargiss was fired as head football coach on October 10, 1932, two days after the Jawhawks lost at home to [[1932 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]], 21&ndash;621–6. Lindsey succeeded Hargiss as acting head coach with athletic director and head basketball coach [[Phog Allen]] overseeing the football program in a supervisory role.<ref>{{cite news |title=Kansas Fires Grid Coach After Defeat |author=[[Associated Press|AP]] |url=httphttps://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1R1JAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PgYNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4288,784291 |newspaper=[[The Hour (newspaper)|The Norwalk Hour]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=October 11, 1932 |accessdateaccess-date=March 15, 2011}}</ref>
 
==Head coaching record==
===Football===
{{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = no | poll = no}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = [[Bethany Terrible Swedes football|Bethany Terrible Swedes]]
| conf = [[Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference]]
| startyear = 1922
| endyear = 1926
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| year = [[1922 college football season|1922]]
| name = Bethany
| overall = 5–3
| conference = 5–3
| confstanding = 6th
| bowloutcome = no
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| year = [[1923 college football season|1923]]
| name = Bethany
| overall = 2–7
| conference = 2–7
| confstanding = 13th
| bowloutcome = no
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| year = [[1924 college football season|1924]]
| name = Bethany
| overall = 4–3–2
| conference = 4–3–2
| confstanding = 6th
| bowloutcome = no
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = [[1925 college football season|1925]]
| name = Bethany
| overall = 7–0
| conference = 7–0
| confstanding = T–1st
| bowloutcome = no
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| year = [[1926 college football season|1926]]
| name = Bethany
| overall = 6–2
| conference = 6–1
| confstanding = T–2nd
| bowloutcome = no
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Bethany
| overall = 24–15–2
| confrecord = 24–14–2
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = [[Oklahoma Sooners football|Oklahoma Sooners]]
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}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = [[1927 college football season|1927]]
| name = [[1927 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]]
| overall = 3–3–23–3–2
| conference = 2–32–3
| confstanding = 7th
| bowlname bowloutcome = no
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = [[1928 college football season|1928]]
| name = [[1928 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]]
| overall = 5–35–3
| conference = 3–23–2
| confstanding = T–2ndT–2nd
| bowlname bowloutcome = no
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = [[1929 college football season|1929]]
| name = [[1929 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]]
| overall = 3–3–23–3–2
| conference = 2–2–12–2–1
| confstanding = 4th
| bowlname bowloutcome = no
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = [[1930 college football season|1930]]
| name = [[1930 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]]
| overall = 4–3–14–3–1
| conference = 3–1–13–1–1
| confstanding = 2nd
| bowlname bowloutcome = no
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = [[1931 college football season|1931]]
| name = [[1931 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]]
| overall = 4–7–14–7–1
| conference = 1–41–4
| confstanding = T–5thT–5th
| bowlname bowloutcome = no
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Oklahoma
| overall = 19–19–619–19–6
| confrecord = 11–12–211–12–2
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
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}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = [[1932 college football season|1932]]
| name = [[1932 Kansas Jayhawks football team|Kansas]]
| overall = 4&ndash;24–2{{#tag:ref|The first two games of the season were coached by [[Homer Woodson Hargiss]].|group="n"|name="1932kansas"}}
| conference = 3&ndash;13–1<ref name=1932kansas group=n/>
| confstanding = T–2ndT–2nd
| bowlname bowloutcome = no
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = [[1933 college football season|1933]]
| name = [[1933 Kansas Jayhawks football team|Kansas]]
| overall = 5–4–15–4–1
| conference = 2–32–3
| confstanding = 4th
| bowlname bowloutcome = no
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = [[1934 college football season|1934]]
| name = [[1934 Kansas Jayhawks football team|Kansas]]
| overall = 3–4–33–4–3
| conference = 1–2–21–2–2
| confstanding = 4th
| bowlname bowloutcome = no
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = [[1935 college football season|1935]]
| name = [[1935 Kansas Jayhawks football team|Kansas]]
| overall = 4–4–14–4–1
| conference = 2–2–12–2–1
| confstanding = 3rd
| bowlname bowloutcome = no
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = [[1936 college football season|1936]]
| name = [[1936 Kansas Jayhawks football team|Kansas]]
| overall = 1–6–11–6–1
| conference = 0–50–5
| confstanding = 6th
| bowlname bowloutcome = no
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = [[1937 college football season|1937]]
| name = [[1937 Kansas Jayhawks football team|Kansas]]
| overall = 3–4–23–4–2
| conference = 2–1–22–1–2
| confstanding = 3rd
| bowlname bowloutcome = no
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = [[1938 college football season|1938]]
| name = [[1938 Kansas Jayhawks football team|Kansas]]
| overall = 3–63–6
| conference = 1–41–4
| confstanding = 6th
| bowlname bowloutcome = no
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Kansas
| overall = 23–30–823–30–8
| confrecord = 11–18–511–18–5
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall = 42–49–1466–64–16
| bcs bowls = no
| poll = no
}}
| polltype =
 
| legend = no
==Baseball==
{{CBB yearly record start
| type = coach
| conference =
| postseason =
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = [[Kansas Jayhawks baseball|Kansas Jayhawks]]
| conference= [[Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association]]
| startyear = 1921
| endyear = single
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
| season = [[1921 NCAA baseball season|1921]]
| name = Kansas
| overall = 13–2
| conference =
}}
{{CBB yearly record subtotal|
| name = Kansas
| overall = {{Winning percentage|13|2|record=y}}
| confrecord =
}}
{{CBB yearly record end
| overall = {{Winning percentage|13|2|record=y}}
}}
 
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==External links==
* {{Find a Grave|27319784}}
* {{CFBCR|1387|Adrian Lindsey}}
 
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{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. -->
| NAME = Lindsey, Adrian
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Linsdey, Adrian Hobart; Linsdey, Adrian H.; Linsdey, Ad
| SHORT DESCRIPTION = American football player and coach
| DATE OF BIRTH = August 15, 1895
| PLACE OF BIRTH =
| DATE OF DEATH = October 1980
| PLACE OF DEATH =
}}
 
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[[Category:1895 births]]
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[[Category:People from Vienna, Illinois]]
[[Category:American football halfbacks]]
[[Category:American football quarterbacks]]
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[[Category:United States Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:Kansas Jayhawks baseball coaches]]
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[[Category:Oklahoma Sooners football coaches]]
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