A players’ coach, the fun-loving Homer Shadle was the first Findlay College baseball coach to record 100 wins with a 118-96-1 career mark in 13 seasons. His teams had a .786 winning percentage in 56 Hoosier-Buckeye Collegiate Conference games. The West Liberty State, W.Va. graduate coached the Oilers to Mid-Ohio Conference baseball crowns in 1969 and 1970 and H-BCC titles in 1973 and 1974. He took FC squads to the NAIA District 22 playoffs five times in the early 1970s, and his 1969 and 1975 teams advanced to the NAIA Area VI playoffs. He was twice named H-BCC Coach of the Year, and he was voted the top NAIA District 22 coach in 1972. Shadle’s FC coaching career also included stints in basketball, wrestling and as a football assistant for 12 seasons, while teaching and managing the intramural program. He was honored in 1970 by the West Virginia Athletic Conference, and he was inducted into the West Virginia Hall of Fame in 1974. After leaving the U.S. Army, he taught physical education at the University of Paris and Biarritz American University. Shadle had a 17-year career as head football coach and athletics director at Northwestern High School in Darlington, Pa.