From Eugene, Oregon, Herbold graduated with a pharmacy degree from Purdue University in Indiana in 1899.

Herbold's first head collegiate coaching position was at the University of Idaho in Moscow in 1900.

In 1902, Herbold left UI to become the head coach for the Oregon Agricultural Beavers in Corvallis.

[8][9] They relocated to eastern Montana to Sanders, where Herbold had acquired agricultural land near the Yellowstone River.

[3] He died in Montana in 1914 at age 38, and is buried in Oregon at Pioneer Cemetery in Eugene.