Herschel Caldwell


Herschel Amos Caldwell was a college football player and coach.

University of Alabama

Caldwell was a prominent end and fullback for Wallace Wade's Alabama Crimson Tide of the University of Alabama.

1925

He was a member of the first Southern team to win a Rose Bowl in 1925.

1926

He was selected All-Southern in 1926. Caldwell made the extra point to tie Stanford in the Rose Bowl the next year. Caldwell was called by one source "one of the greatest defensive backs the South has produced in years." He also caught many balls thrown by Hoyt Winslett.

Coaching career

Sidney Lanier High

He later coached, first at Sidney Lanier High School.

Duke

Caldwell then coached under his former mentor Wade as an assistant at Duke. He remained in this capacity in one form or another, working from freshman coach to varsity end coach, for forty years.