The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. ffm 00:02, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Jake High (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)

Does not appear to meet WP:BIO, WP:ATHLETE or WP:NOTABILITY and article lacks non-trivial coverage in reliable, independent sources. See also a similar AFD recently in progress at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Walter J. West. Kittybrewster ☎ 19:49, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Absoloutely meets WP:BIO, WP:ATHLETE, and WP:NOTABILITY. Head coach of New York University football in 1913, a prat the highest level of competition in the sport at the time (the NFL didn't form until 1920). Coach lost every game, outscored by opponents 241-0 or an average of 30.4 points per game. Extremely poor record assists notability.--Paul McDonald (talk) 19:55, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak keep - as noted above, head coach of a major university football program in the early years of the game. another reference can be found here to confirm the record. Tony Fox (arf!) 20:14, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak keep as per Paulmcdonald. I believe that the article needs to be rewritten, as the "poorest performing coach in history" bit is POV unless there is reputable source which said so. - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ contribs} 20:46, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep, Historical in natureCdC—Chuleta de Chancho (talk) 20:58, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. His utter failure is historically significant. →Wordbuilder (talk) 20:13, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Request As discussed on the AfD talk page, if this article (or any of the series of articles) is closed as a delete, please kindly first move the article to User:Paulmcdonald/Articlename, where "Articlename" is the name of the article (or articles) being removed. Also, please note the new page location at User:Paulmcdonald/deletedcoach so we can be sure to find the moved page.
Why? There have been, at present count, 58 articles of our project placed on the AfD list and there is just not enough time to adequately and appropriately respond and ultimately improve the articles themselves. This would give the project memebers time to work on improving the articles. This request should in no way imply that I believe that the article (or articles) in quesiton should be deleted at this time. I am making a simple cut-n-paste request due to the sheer volume of AfDs in such a short period of time.--Paul McDonald (talk) 01:00, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep per Wordbuilder 09er (talk) 02:39, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp | talk to me 17:37, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete due to lack of nontrivial coverage in reliable sources. Stifle (talk) 10:22, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• keep - notable enough, work on additional sources is needed, however. --Rocksanddirt (talk) 18:46, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• keep I believe it somehow fits our criteria to be notable. abf /talk to me/ 19:36, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. This is a candidate for rescue, but I believe the subject meets WP:BIO even with the sparse sources currently cited. RFerreira (talk) 20:18, 22 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak Keep per Jameson. Needs a lot of work. JKBrooks85 (talk) 23:07, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.