Thomas Ashford Bogle Jr. (March 7, 1890 – September 21, 1955) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

player and coach. He played as a lineman for the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

from 1910 to 1911 and served as the head football coach at

DePauw University DePauw University is a private liberal arts university in Greencastle, Indiana. It has an enrollment of 1,972 students. The school has a Methodist heritage and was originally known as Indiana Asbury University. DePauw is a member of both the G ...

from 1913 to 1914.

Early years

Bogle was born in

Ann Arbor, Michigan Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County, Michigan, Washtenaw County. The 2020 United States census, 2020 census recorded its population to be 123,851. It is the principal city of the Ann Arbor ...

in 1890. His father, Thomas A. Bogle Sr., was a law professor at the

University of Michigan

He attended the University of Michigan, graduating from the Literary Department in 1912. While attending Michigan, Bogle played as a lineman for

Fielding H. Yost Fielding Harris Yost (; April 30, 1871 – August 20, 1946) was an American football player, coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at: Ohio Wesleyan University, the University of Nebraska, the University ...

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team from 1910 to 1911. He also competed for Michigan's track team, receiving varsity letters in track in his sophomore, junior, and senior years.

DePauw

Bogle was hired as the head football coach at

in Greencastle, Indiana in August 1913. In two years as the head coach at DePauw, he compiled a record of 9–7–1. In 1913, he led DePauw to a 5–2–1 record and the championship of the Indiana Secondary Schools. In the 1914 season opener, Bogle scheduled a game against his mentor, Fielding Yost. In the days before the game, an Indiana newspaper wrote:

"Coach Bogle of DePauw, learned the gridiron game from Hurry Up Yost. Bogle will have a chance to show how much of the game he knows when his team is pitted against the eleven of his former mentor at Ann Arbor Wednesday. Bogle was a lineman at the Wolverine institution."

DePauw lost to Michigan by a score of 58 to 0.

Later years

At the time of the 1920 and 1930 United States Censuses, Bogle was living in Ann Arbor working as a school teacher.Census entry for Thomas Bogle and wife, Isabel Bogle. Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census atabase on-line Year: 1930; Census Place: Detroit, Wayne, Michigan; Roll: 1033; Page: 14A; Enumeration District: 1074; Image: 862.0.

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