Jack Sisco

{{Short description|American football player, coach, and official (1904–1983)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox college coach | name = Jack Sisco | image = Jack Sisco.png | alt = | caption = Sisco pictured in ''The Yucca 1940'', North Texas State Teachers yearbook | birth_date = {{Birth date|1904|11|2}} | birth_place = Waco, Texas, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1983|12|18|1904|11|2}} | death_place = Navarro County, Texas, U.S. | alma_mater = | player_years1 = 1924–1926 | player_team1 = Baylor | player_positions = Lineman | coach_sport1 = Football | coach_years2 = 1929–1941 | coach_team2 = North Texas State Teachers | coach_sport3 = Basketball | coach_years4 = 1933–1935 | coach_team4 = North Texas State Teachers | overall_record = 74–37–10 (football) 15–27 (basketball) | bowl_record = | tournament_record = | championships = 1 TIAA (1931) 6 LSC (1932, 1935, 1936, 1939–1941) 1 TIAA Eastern Division (1931) | awards = | coaching_records = }} '''Robert Dickey''' "'''Jack'''" '''Sisco''' (November 2, 1904 – December 18, 1983)<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txnavarr/obituaries/pg90292.htm| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140731001201/http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txnavarr/obituaries/pg90292.htm| archive-date = 2014-07-31| title = Obituaries - Page 90292}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc98906/m1/14/?q=%22Laird,%20Lee%22| title = The North Texan, Volume 36, Number 1, Spring 1986 - Page 14 - UNT Digital Library| year = 1986}}</ref> was an American football player, coach, and official. He served as head football coach at the University of North Texas from 1929 to 1941. With a record of 74–37–10, Sisco is the second winningest coach in school history, behind Odus Mitchell. His teams won seven conference championships and tied for three others.

A native of Waco, Texas, Sisco prepped at Waco High School playing under coach Paul Tyson.<ref>{{cite book |title=Autumn's Mightiest Legions: History of Texas Schoolboy Football |last=Ratliff |first=Harold |year=1963 |publisher=Texian Press |location=Waco |pages=41–45 }}</ref> He went on to attend Baylor University, where he was a lineman on the 1924 Baylor Bears football team that won the Southwest Conference title.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://baylorbears.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/101204aac.html |title=A Look Through the Years: The 1924 Team |access-date=December 27, 2007 |archive-date=March 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080324005232/http://baylorbears.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/101204aac.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

After his coaching career, he became a college football referee best remembered for a controversial call in the 1947 Red River Shootout between the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2bunCgAAQBAJ&q=Jack+Sisco+baylor+referee&pg=PT42|title = Texas Caesar: Darrell K Royal 1924-2012|isbn = 9781458219411|last1 = Brent Clark|first1 = J.|date = 25 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/20972731/the-wild-bottle-throwing-badly-officiated-1947-ou-texas-game| title = The wild, bottle-throwing, badly officiated 1947 OU-Texas game| date = 10 October 2017}} </ref><ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.tulsaworld.com/archive/after-ou-became-dedicated-to-beat-texas/article_c3b6d7f0-4fa4-583f-b792-7f65d619765c.html| title = After '45, OU Became Dedicated to Beat Texas {{!}} Archive {{!}} tulsaworld.com}} </ref> To this day, some Sooner fans refer to this as the "Sisco Game".<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.chron.com/sports/college-football/article/The-100-year-football-war-Texas-OU-by-the-game-1927889.php| title = The 100-year football war: Texas-OU by the game| date = 7 October 2005}}</ref>

His great-granddaughter, Emilee Sisco, played volleyball at the University of Colorado.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://cubuffs.com/sports/womens-volleyball/roster/emilee-sisco/3850| title = Emilee Sisco - Volleyball - University of Colorado Athletics}}</ref>

==Head coaching record== ===Football=== {{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subhead | name = North Texas State Teachers Eagles | conf = Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association | startyear = 1929 | endyear = 1931 }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1929 | name = North Texas State Teachers | overall = 4–3–2 | conference = 2–0–2 | confstanding = 2nd | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1930 | name = North Texas State Teachers | overall = 5–4–1 | conference = 4–1 | confstanding = 3rd | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = conference | year = 1931 | name = North Texas State Teachers | overall = 8–3 | conference = 4–0 | confstanding = 1st (Eastern) | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subhead | name = North Texas State Teachers Eagles | conf = Lone Star Conference | startyear = 1932 | endyear = 1941 }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = conference | year = 1932 | name = North Texas State Teachers | overall = 8–1–1 | conference = 5–0 | confstanding = 1st | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1933 | name = North Texas State Teachers | overall = 3–4–2 | conference = 2–2–1 | confstanding = 3rd | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1934 | name = North Texas State Teachers | overall = 5–4 | conference = 2–2 | confstanding = T–2nd | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = conference | year = 1935 | name = North Texas State Teachers | overall = 5–3–1 | conference = 3–1 | confstanding = T–1st | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = conference | year = 1936 | name = North Texas State Teachers | overall = 6–2–1 | conference = 4–0 | confstanding = 1st | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1937 | name = North Texas State Teachers | overall = 4–4–2 | conference = 2–1–1 | confstanding = 2nd | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1938 | name = North Texas State Teachers | overall = 7–4 | conference = 2–2 | confstanding = 3rd | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = conference | year = 1939 | name = North Texas State Teachers | overall = 6–1 | conference = 4–0 | confstanding = 1st | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = conference | year = 1940 | name = North Texas State Teachers | overall = 6–3 | conference = 4–0 | confstanding = 1st | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = conference | year = 1941 | name = North Texas State Teachers | overall = 7–1 | conference = 4–0 | confstanding = 1st | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = North Texas State Teachers | overall = 74–37–10 | confrecord = 42–9–4 }} {{CFB Yearly Record End | overall = 74–37–10 | bowls = no | poll = no | polltype = | legend = no }}

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Jack Sisco

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