:Forest Loudin

{{Short description|American football, basketball, and baseball coach}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox college coach

| name = Forest Loudin

| image = Forest A Loudin.png

| alt =

| caption = Loudin pictured in the Crimson Rambler 1922, Carthage, yearbook

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1890|2|26}}

| birth_place = New London Mills, Illinois, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1935|9|15|1890|2|26}}

| death_place = Keokuk, Iowa, U.S.

| alma_mater =

| coach_sport1 = Football

| coach_years2 = 1916–1920

| coach_team2 = Carthage

| coach_sport3 = Basketball

| coach_years4 = 1914–1918

| coach_team4 = Carthage

| coach_years5 = 1919–1921

| coach_team5 = Carthage

| coach_sport6 = Baseball

| coach_years7 = 1916–1921

| coach_team7 = Carthage

| overall_record = 8–13–2 (football)
24–37 (basketball)
7–12 (baseball)

| bowl_record =

| tournament_record =

| championships =

| awards =

| coaching_records =

}}

Forrest Allen Loudin (February 26, 1890 – September 15, 1935) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He was an alumnus of the University of Iowa, where he played football. Previously he had also coached and taught science and athletics high school in Iowa.{{Cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K6D4-BJQ|title=FamilySearch.org|website=FamilySearch |accessdate=21 June 2023}}

Loudin was the head football coach at Carthage College in Carthage, Illinois for four seasons, from 1916 until 1920, compiling a record of 8–13–2.{{Cite web

|last=DeLassus

|first=David

|title=Carthage Redmen

|publisher=College Football Data Warehouse

|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iii/cciw/carthage/coaching_records.php

|accessdate=August 23, 2013

|url-status=dead

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926210840/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iii/cciw/carthage/coaching_records.php

|archivedate=September 26, 2013

}}{{cite web|url=http://athletics.carthage.edu/sports/2013/7/24/Football_0724130009.aspx?path=football|publisher=Carthage Red Men|title=All-time football records|accessdate=October 3, 2013}}

Loudin was also professor of Mathematics and Physical Director at his time at Carthage.The Crimson Rambler 1922, Carthage College Yearbook He died at Keokuk, Iowa in 1935 of an illness contracted during his overseas service in World War I.{{Cite web |date=December 3, 1935 |title=di1935-12-03.pdf |url=http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1935/di1935-12-03.pdf |access-date=April 6, 2023 |website=University of Iowa}}