# Ewing Y. Freeland

Ewing Young "Big 'un" Freeland (January 1, 1887 – August 15, 1953) was an American football and baseball player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the head football coach at Daniel Baker College (1912–1914), Texas Christian University (1915), Austin College (1919–1920, 1936–1938), Millsaps College (1921), Southern Methodist University (1922–1923, with Ray Morrison), and Texas Tech University (1925–1928), compiling a career college football record of 77–49–16. Freeland was also the head basketball coach at TCU for one season in 1915–16 and at Millsaps for one season, in 1921–22. In addition, he was the head baseball coach at TCU (1916), SMU (1923–1924), and Texas Tech (1926–1927), amassing a career college baseball record of 50–47–3.

## Biography

Freeland was born on January 1, 1887, in Turnersville, Texas and died on August 15, 1953, in Brownwood, Texas. He played football and baseball at Vanderbilt University, from which he graduated in 1912. He weighed some 200 pounds. He was nominated though not selected for an Associated Press All-Time Southeast 1869-1919 era team. In 1915, Freeland coached football at TCU, compiling a 4–5 record. In 1922 and 1923, Freeland co-coached the SMU Mustangs football team with his former teammate at Vanderbilt, Ray Morrison. The two effectively shared the heading coaching duties, with Morrison focusing on the backfield and ends, and Freeland mentoring the linemen. In 1925, Freeland became the first coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, then known as the Matadors. He coached football at Texas Tech from 1925 to 1928, where he had a 21–10–6 record. Freeland was also the first head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders baseball team and Texas Tech's first athletic director. He is credited with designing Texas Tech's Double T logo and had it put on the sweaters of football players.

## Head coaching record
### Football

| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing |
| Daniel Baker (Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1912–1914) ||||||
| 1912 | Daniel Baker | 4–1–2 | | |
| 1913 | Daniel Baker | 1–3–3 | | |
| 1914 | Daniel Baker | 7–2 | | |
| Daniel Baker: | Daniel Baker: | 12–6–5 | | |
| TCU Horned Frogs (Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1915) ||||||
| 1915 | TCU | 4–5 | 2–0 | |
| TCU: | TCU: | 4–5 | 2–0 | |
| Austin Kangaroos (Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1919–1920) ||||||
| 1919 | Austin | 4–3–1 | | |
| 1920 | Austin | 6–3 | | 1st |
| Millsaps Majors (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1921) ||||||
| 1921 | Millsaps | 1–5–1 | 0–3 | T–26th |
| Millsaps: | Millsaps: | 1–5–1 | 0–3 | |
| SMU Mustangs (Southwest Conference) (1922–1923) ||||||
| 1922 | SMU | 6–3–1 | 2–2 | T–3rd |
| 1923 | SMU | 9–0 | 5–0 | 1st |
| SMU: | SMU: | 15–3–1 | 7–2 | |
| Texas Tech Matadors (Independent) (1925–1928) ||||||
| 1925 | Texas Tech | 6–1–2 | | |
| 1926 | Texas Tech | 6–1–3 | | |
| 1927 | Texas Tech | 5–4 | | |
| 1928 | Texas Tech | 4–4–1 | | |
| Texas Tech: | Texas Tech: | 21–10–6 | | |
| Austin Kangaroos (Texas Conference) (1936–1938) ||||||
| 1936 | Austin | 4–4–2 | 3–3 | 4th |
| 1937 | Austin | 8–2 | 6–1 | 2nd |
| 1938 | Austin | 2–8 | 2–5 | |
| Austin: | Austin: | 24–20–3 | 11–8 | |
| Total: | Total: | 77–49–16 | | |
| National championship  Conference title  Conference division title or championship game berth ||||||

### Baseball

Statistics overview :
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing |
| TCU Horned Frogs (1916) ||||||
| 1916 | TCU | 9–7 | | |
| TCU: | TCU: | 9–7 | | |
| SMU Mustangs (Southwest Conference) (1923–1924) ||||||
| 1923 | SMU | 16–10 | 14–6 | 2nd |
| 1924 | SMU | 10–19 | 5–16 | 6th |
| SMU: | SMU: | 26–25 | 19–22 | |
| Texas Tech Matadors (1926–1927) ||||||
| 1926 | Texas Tech | 11–2–1 | | |
| 1927 | Texas Tech | 4–9–1 | | |
| Texas Tech: | Texas Tech: | 15–11–2 | | |
| Total: | Total: | 50–43–2 | | |