Ed Olle


Ed Olle (February 12, 1904 – April 3, 1964) was a college baseball and college basketball player, a men's college basketball head coach, and an athletics director at The University of Texas at Austin.

Ed Olle
Biographical details
Born(1904-02-12)February 12, 1904
DiedApril 3, 1964(1964-04-03) (aged 60)
Alma materUniversity of Texas
Playing career
Basketball
1926–27Texas
Baseball
1926–27Texas
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1931–1934Texas
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1956–1962Texas
Head coaching record
Overall49–18
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Awards
2 All-Southwest Conference honors (Baseball 1926, 1927)

Olle played for Texas Longhorns men's basketball head coach E. J. "Doc" Stewart and for Texas baseball head coach William J. "Billy" Disch. He received all-Southwest Conference honors in baseball in 1926 and 1927.[1] Olle would go on to coach the Longhorns in basketball for three seasons (1931–34) following the departure of "Mysterious" Fred Walker in 1931.[2] His 1932–33 team finished the season as Southwest Conference champions with a 22–1 overall record and would many decades later receive retroactive recognition as that season's national champion in the Premo-Porretta Power Poll (the team playing as it did in an era preceding the existence of national basketball tournaments or polling).[2][3] After three seasons as head coach, Olle resigned and moved into a position in the UT Athletics Department, first under Texas football head coach and Athletics Director Jack Chevigny, and later under football coach and Athletics Director Dana X. Bible.[4] He was subsequently hired as UT Athletics Director in 1956 and remained in that position until 1962.[5]

Head coaching record
Statistics overview
Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Texas (Southwest Conference) (1931–1934)
1931–32 Texas 13–95–74th
1932–33 Texas 22–111–11stPremo-Porretta National Champions
1933–34 Texas 14–86–63rd
Texas: 49–18 (.731)22–14 (.611)
Total:49–18 (.731)

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

References
  1. "Baseball Conference Honors". texassports.com. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
  2. "2014-15 Texas Basketball Fact Book" (PDF). texassports.com. pp. 65–66. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
  3. ESPN, ed. (2009). ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game. New York, NY: ESPN Books. p. 543. ISBN 978-0-345-51392-2.
  4. Pennington, Richard (1998). Longhorn Hoops: The History of Texas Basketball. Austin, TX: Athletic Department, The University of Texas at Austin. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-292-76585-6.
  5. "Darrell Royal Named Texas Football Coach". Chicago Tribune. Tribune Publishing. December 19, 1956. Retrieved May 3, 2005.
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