Charles Bolen

Charles Bolen

File:Charles W. Bolen.png Bolen pictured in the 1917 Makio
Sport(s)	Football, Basketball
Biographical details
Born	(1894-01-08)January 8, 1894 Marion, Indiana
Died	Columbus, Ohio
Playing career
Football
1915–1917	Ohio State
Basketball
1915–1918	Ohio State
Position(s)	End (football)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1919–1922	Ohio Northern
1923–1929	Wilmington (OH)
Basketball
1919–1920	Ohio Northern
Head coaching record
Overall	37–40–1 (football) 37–19 (basketball)

Charles Wesley "Shifty" Bolen (January 8, 1894 – December 28, 1953) was an American football and basketball player, coach, and college athletics administrator.

While attending Ohio State University, Bolen played three years for both the Ohio State Buckeyes football and Buckeyes basketball teams. In football, he developed a reputation as a "fierce, tigerish" player and "the premier defensive end in the West", and he was selected as a consensus first-team end on the 1917 College Football All-America Team. In basketball, he was captain of Ohio State's 1917–18 team.

Bolen served as the head football at Ohio Northern University from 1919 to 1921 and at Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio from 1923 to 1929, compiling a career college football coaching record of 37–40–1. He was also the head coach of the men's basketball team at Ohio Northern from 1919 to 1922, tallying a mark of 37–19. He served for many years as an administrator in the Ohio Northern athletic department and was the founder of the university's intramural sports program.

Bolen died in 1953 and was buried at the Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio.

Head coaching record

Football

Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs
Ohio Northern Polar Bears (Ohio Athletic Conference) (1919–1921)
1919	Ohio Northern	1–8	0–6	15th
1920	Ohio Northern	3–4	2–3	11th
1921	Ohio Northern	5–4	4–3	T–7th
Ohio Northern:		9–16	6–12
Wilmington Quakers (Independent) (1923–1929)
1923	Wilmington	2–6
1924	Wilmington	4–3
1925	Wilmington	6–2
1926	Wilmington	3–4
1927	Wilmington	3–4
1928	Wilmington	6–3
1929	Wilmington	4–2–1
Wilmington:		28–24–1
Total:		37–40–1