Dick Clausen
{{Short description|American football coach and administrator (1912–2000)}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Dick Clausen
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| birth_date = 1912
| birth_place = Vining, Iowa, U.S.
| death_date = December 2000 (aged 88)
| death_place = Tucson, Arizona, U.S.
| alma_mater =
| player_sport1 = Football
| player_years2 = {{Circa|1935}}
| player_team2 = Iowa
| player_sport3 = Baseball
| player_years4 = c. 1935
| player_team4 = Iowa
| player_positions = End (football)
First baseman (baseball)
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1938
| coach_team2 = Clear Lake HS (IA)
| coach_years3 = 1939–1941
| coach_team3 = Hampton HS (IA)
| coach_years4 = 1942–1947
| coach_team4 = New Trier HS (IL)
| coach_years5 = 1948–1955
| coach_team5 = Coe
| coach_years6 = 1956–1957
| coach_team6 = New Mexico
| coach_sport8 = Basketball
| coach_years9 = 1938–1939
| coach_team9 = Clear Lake HS (IA)
| admin_years1 = 1958–1972
| admin_team1 = Arizona
| overall_record = 43–36–5 (college football)
| bowl_record =
| tournament_record =
| championships = 3 MWC (1950, 1952, 1955)
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Dick Clausen (1912 – December 2000) was an American football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Coe College from 1948 to 1955 and the University of New Mexico from 1956 to 1957, compiling a career college football record of 43–36–5. Clausen was also the athletic director at the University of Arizona from 1958 to 1972.
Born in Vining, Iowa, Clausen attended high school in Sabula, Iowa, graduating in 1928. At the University of Iowa, he played football as an end and baseball, as a first baseman.{{cite news |last=Kailer |first=J. D. |title=UNM Hires Winner In Dick Clausen |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24668382/albuquerque_journal/ |newspaper=Albuquerque Journal |location=Albuquerque, New Mexico |date=January 1, 1956 |page=6 |access-date=October 19, 2018 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} Clausen died at in December 2000, at the age of 88, in Tucson, Arizona.{{cite news |author= |title=N. M. Coach |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24668559/albuquerque_journal/ |newspaper=Albuquerque Journal |location=Albuquerque, New Mexico |date=December 14, 2000 |page=37 |access-date=October 19, 2018 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
Head coaching record
=College football=
{{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Coe Kohawks
| conf = Midwest Conference
| startyear = 1948
| endyear = 1955
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1948
| name = Coe
| overall = 1–5–2
| conference = 1–4–1
| confstanding = 7th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1949
| name = Coe
| overall = 1–6–1
| conference = 0–6
| confstanding = 9th
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| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1950
| name = Coe
| overall = 6–2
| conference = 5–1
| confstanding = T–1st
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| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1951
| name = Coe
| overall = 3–5
| conference = 2–4
| confstanding = 6th
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| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1952
| name = Coe
| overall = 7–1
| conference = 6–0
| confstanding = 1st
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1953
| name = Coe
| overall = 5–2–1
| conference = 5–0–1
| confstanding = 2nd
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| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1954
| name = Coe
| overall = 4–3–1
| conference = 4–3–1
| confstanding = 4th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1955
| name = Coe
| overall = 8–0
| conference = 7–0
| confstanding = 1st
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Coe
| overall = 35–24–5
| confrecord = 30–18–3
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = New Mexico Lobos
| conf = Skyline Conference
| startyear = 1956
| endyear = 1957
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1956
| name = New Mexico
| overall = 4–6
| conference = 2–4
| confstanding = 6th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1957
| name = New Mexico
| overall = 4–6
| conference = 2–4
| confstanding = 5th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = New Mexico
| overall = 8–12
| confrecord = 4–8
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall = 43–36–5
| bowls = no
| poll = no
| polltype =
}}
References
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{{Coe Kohawks football coach navbox}}
{{New Mexico Lobos football coach navbox}}
{{Arizona Wildcats athletic director navbox}}
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