Fred Ewing
| Sport(s) | Football |
|---|---|
| Biographical details | |
| Born | c. 1882 Arcola, Illinois |
| Died | 1968 |
| Playing career | |
| 1902 | Knox (IL) |
| Position(s) | Tackle |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1904 | Oklahoma |
| 1905 | Knox (IL) |
Fred E. "Buck" Ewing (c. 1882 – 1968) was an American football coach and physician. He coached the University of Oklahoma during the 1904 season and amassed a 4–3–1 record. He was the first Oklahoma football coach to require players to be academically eligible. Ewing coached Oklahoma in its first meeting against Oklahoma State University.
A native of Arcola, Illinois, Ewing attended Knox College in Galesburg. He played on the football there, including as its captain during the 1902 season, and was considered the greatest tackle the school ever produced. That year, Knox defeated several larger schools, including Notre Dame, Kansas, and Northwestern. Ewing was elected the president of the Inter-State Oratorical Society and president of the graduating class of 1903. He was also a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. After college, Ewing attended medical school at the Rush Medical College in Chicago.
In 1904, Ewing took a hiatus from medical school to become the fifth head coach of the University of Oklahoma football team. He was the first coach at the school to insist upon fielding only academically eligible players, and the first Oklahoma coach to not play on the team himself. Ewing also introduced to Oklahoma the practice of ankle-taping and the "Minnesota shift", a maneuver attributed to Golden Gophers coach Henry L. Williams.
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