Phil Sarboe
Phil Sarboe
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| Sport(s) | Football, basketball |
|---|---|
| Biographical details | |
| Born | (1911-08-22)August 22, 1911 Fairbanks, Alaska Territory |
| Died | November 19, 1985(1985-11-19) (aged 74) Spokane, Washington |
| Alma mater | Washington State, 1934 |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1931–1933 | Washington State |
| 1934 | Boston Redskins |
| 1934–1936 | Chicago Cardinals |
| 1936 | Brooklyn Dodgers |
| Position(s) | Defensive back, quarterback, running back |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1937–1938 | Clarkston HS (WA) |
| 1939–1940 | Aberdeen HS (WA) |
| 1941–1942 | Central Washington |
| 1943–1944 | Lincoln HS (WA) |
| 1945–1949 | Washington State |
| 1950 | North Central HS (WA) |
| 1951–1965 | Humboldt State |
| 1966 | Hawaii |
| Basketball | |
| 1951–1952 | Humboldt State |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 131–75–11 (college football) 4–13 (college basketball) |
Phillip John Sarboe (August 22, 1911 – November 19, 1985) was an American football player and coach.[1] He was the head coach for five seasons at Washington State College in the late 1940s, and later for over a decade at Humboldt State College.
Contents
1 Early years
2 Professional career
3 Coaching
4 Death
5 Head coaching record
5.1 College football
6 References
7 External links
Early years[edit]
Born in Fairbanks, Alaska, Sarboe graduated from Lincoln High School in Tacoma, Washington, and was a three-sport athlete in the Pacific Coast Conference at Washington State College in Pullman. On a basketball scholarship, he also played shortstop in baseball and had his greatest success in football, most notably as a fullback. He played in the East–West Shrine Game in January 1934.[1]
Although he had minor league offers in baseball, he chose to play professional football.
Professional career[edit]
Sarboe played three seasons in the National Football League, starting with Boston Redskins in 1934. Listed at 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) and 167 lb (76 kg), he was traded that season to the Chicago Cardinals, and finished his pro career in 1936 with the Brooklyn Dodgers. He completed only 42.3 percent of his passes for just 1,133 yards, had a 4–26 career touchdown to interception ratio, and a career passer rating of 27.9.
Coaching[edit]
Sarboe began his coaching career in 1937 in southeastern Washington at Clarkston High School,[2][3] then moved west to Aberdeen in 1939.[1] In 1941 and 1942, he coached football at Central Washington College of Education in Ellensburg,[4] compiling a 6–6–3 record. The 1942 team was 4–1–1 in the Washington Intercollegiate Conference and won the season title.[5]
The program was suspended after the 1942 season due to World War II, and Sarboe coached in Tacoma at Lincoln High School, his alma mater.[6] He had planned to return to Ellensburg to coach the high school team in 1945 and then return to Central Washington when it resumed football in 1946.[7]
Babe Hollingbery, the Cougars' head coach since 1926, was not brought back in 1945 and Sarboe was hired as head coach of the Cougars in late May,[6][8] the first alumnus to head the football program. In his first season in Pullman in 1945, Washington State posted a 6–2–1 record, but struggled afterward and Sarboe had a 17–26–3 (.402) record in five seasons.
Sarboe coached a season at North Central High School in Spokane in 1950,[1] then went to Humboldt State College[9] in Arcata, California, where he compiled a record of 104–37–5 (.729) in fifteen seasons. In 1966, he left to coach for a season at Hawaii and posted a 4–6 record. Sarboe then returned to northwest California and became a coach and athletic director at the College of the Redwoods, a junior college in Eureka, and retired in 1977.[10]
Death[edit]
Sarboe died of cancer in 1985 at age 74 in Spokane.[1]
Head coaching record[edit]
College football[edit]
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Central Washington Wildcats (Washington Intercollegiate Conference) (1941–1942) | |||||||||
| 1941 | Central Washington | 1–5–1 | 0–5–1 | 5th | |||||
| 1942 | Central Washington | 5–1–2 | 4–1–1 | 1st | |||||
Central Washington: | 6–6–3 | 4–6–2 | |||||||
Washington State Cougars (Pacific Coast Conference) (1945–1949) | |||||||||
1945 | Washington State | 6–2–1 | 6–2–1 | 2nd | |||||
1946 | Washington State | 1–6–1 | 1–5–1 | 8th | |||||
1947 | Washington State | 3–7 | 2–5 | T–7th | |||||
1948 | Washington State | 4–5–1 | 4–3–1 | 4th | |||||
1949 | Washington State | 3–6 | 2–6 | 8th | |||||
Washington State: | 17–26–3 | 15–21–3 | |||||||
Humboldt State Lumberjacks (Far Western Conference) (1951–1965) | |||||||||
| 1951 | Humboldt State | 4–3–1 | 2–1 | 3rd | |||||
| 1952 | Humboldt State | 7–1 | 3–0 | 1st | |||||
| 1953 | Humboldt State | 6–2 | 2–1 | 2nd | |||||
| 1954 | Humboldt State | 5–5 | 3–2 | 3rd | |||||
| 1955 | Humboldt State | 7–3–1 | 2–2–1 | 4th | |||||
| 1956 | Humboldt State | 9–2 | 4–1 | T–1st | |||||
| 1957 | Humboldt State | 4–6 | 3–2 | 3rd | |||||
| 1958 | Humboldt State | 7–2–1 | 3–2 | T–2nd | |||||
| 1959 | Humboldt State | 9–1 | 4–1 | 2nd | |||||
| 1960 | Humboldt State | 11–1 | 5–0 | 1st | L NAIA Championship | ||||
| 1961 | Humboldt State | 8–2 | 4–1 | T–1st | |||||
| 1962 | Humboldt State | 7–2 | 3–2 | 2nd | |||||
| 1963 | Humboldt State | 6–1–2 | 3–1–1 | T–1st | |||||
| 1964 | Humboldt State | 8–2 | 4–1 | 2nd | |||||
| 1965 | Humboldt State | 6–4 | 2–3 | 4th | |||||
Humboldt State: | 104–37–5 | 40–20–2 | |||||||
Hawaii Rainbows (Independent) (1966) | |||||||||
1966 | Hawaii | 4–6 | |||||||
Hawaii: | 4–6 | ||||||||
| Total: | 131–75–11 | ||||||||
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth | |||||||||
References[edit]
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^ "Bantams weakened for Pomeroy game". Lewiston Morning Tribune. October 1, 1937. p. 9.
^ "Bantams sink Pirates, 19-0". Lewiston Morning Tribune. October 1, 1938. p. 9.
^ "Sarboe inherits only 8 vets in first year here". September 20, 1941. p. 6.
^ "Rangers defeat Eastern, take second place". Ellensburg Daily Record. November 16, 1942. p. 6.
^ ab Johnson, Bob (May 28, 1945). "State College alumni bitter about "sacking" of Hollingbery". Spokane Daily Chronicle. p. 9.
^ "Sarboe goes to W.S.C.; schools here seek coach". Ellensburg Daily Record. May 28, 1945. p. 6.
^ "Sarboe takes over grid post". Spokesman-Review. (photo). May 30, 1945. p. 10.
^ "Ex-Cougar coach mighty popular". Spokane Daily Chronicle. UPI. November 18, 1960. p. 13.
^ "Athletic Hall of Fame". College of the Redwoods. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
External links[edit]
- Career statistics and player information from NFL.com · Pro-Football-Reference ·
Categories:
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- 1985 deaths
- American football defensive backs
- American football quarterbacks
- Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL) players
- Boston Redskins players
- Central Washington Wildcats football coaches
- Chicago Cardinals players
- Hawaii Rainbow Warriors and Rainbow Wahine athletic directors
- Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football coaches
- Humboldt State Lumberjacks football coaches
- Humboldt State Lumberjacks men's basketball coaches
- Washington State Cougars football coaches
- Washington State Cougars football players
- Sportspeople from Fairbanks, Alaska
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