page_title: Lewie Hardage
section_title: 1912
hierarchical_section_title: Lewie Hardage / Playing career / Vanderbilt / 1912
caption_attribution_description: English: Lew Hardage c. 1912
context_page_description: Lewis Woolford Hardage was an American college football player and college football and baseball coach. Hardage was an All-Southern halfback every year he played: 1908, 1909, 1911, and 1912—the first two for Mike Donahue's Auburn Tigers of Auburn University and the latter two for Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University. Fuzzy Woodruff labeled him the South's "fastest back of the 1910-1920 decade".
  He served as the head football coach at Mercer University in 1913 and at the University of Oklahoma from 1932 to 1934, compiling a career college football coaching record of 13–17–5. Hardage was later the head baseball coach at the University of Florida from 1937 to 1939, tallying a mark of 35–24–1.
context_section_description: In his senior year in 1912, Hardage was the captain of the team. He also was selected third-team All-American by Walter Camp, the fourth ever Southern player to get such a recognition. Innis Brown in 1912 wrote "Hardage has been rated as probably the most successful man in the south at making forward passes."
  He scored two touchdowns in the 105–0 defeat of Bethel. He tossed a 40-yard touchdown pass in a 100–3 win over Maryville. He returned an interception 35 yards for a touchdown against Rose Polytechnic. He was injured in the season's only loss, to national champion Harvard. Despite his hurt left ankle, Hardage "ran with great brilliance" in the 16–0 defeat of Sewanee, in his final game to secure a southern title.
caption: Hardage at Vanderbilt, 1912
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