Lindsey was also the head baseball coach at Kansas for one season in 1921, tallying a mark of 13–2.

As part of the occupation force after the Armistice, Lindsey played right halfback for the 89th Division squad that won the AEF football championship in March 1919.

Bob Higgins, Paul Withington, Charles Gerhardt and George Clark were also members of the squad.

[2] Lindsey began the 1932 season at Kansas as an assistant to Homer Woodson Hargiss.

Hargiss was fired as head football coach on October 10, 1932, two days after the Jawhawks lost at home to Oklahoma, 21–6.