Howard Baughman
{{Short description|American football coach}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Howard Baughman
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1911|1|27}}
| birth_place = Ashtabula County, Ohio, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2000|11|17|1911|1|27}}
| death_place = Hamilton County, Ohio, U.S.
| alma_mater = Kent State University
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years1 = 1938–1939
| coach_team1 = Bremen HS (OH)
| coach_years2 = 1940–1943
| coach_team2 = Harvey HS (OH)
| coach_years3 = 1944–1948
| coach_team3 = Cleveland Heights HS (OH)
| coach_years4 = 1949–1950
| coach_team4 = Muhlenberg
| coach_years5 = 1951–1954
| coach_team5 = Lincoln HS (OH)
| coach_years6 = 1955–1961
| coach_team6 = Portsmouth HS (OH)
| coach_sport7 = Men's basketball
| coach_years7 = 1938–1940
| coach_team7 = Bremen HS (OH)
| coach_years8 = 1942–1944
| coach_team8 = Harvey HS (OH)
| coach_years9 = 1946–1947
| coach_team9 = John Carroll
| admin_years1 = 1942–1944
| admin_team1 = Harvey HS (OH)
| admin_years2 = 1955–1962
| admin_team2 = Portsmouth HS (OH)
| overall_record = 127–67–4 (High school football)
4–11–2 (College football)
58–11 (High school basketball)
9–11 (College basketball)
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| championships = Football
Lake Shore League (1941)
Lake Erie League (1945)
Basketball
2 Lake Shore League (1942–43, 1943–44)
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Howard Wesley Baughman (January 27, 1911 – November 17, 2000) was an American football coach who was a high school football coach in Ohio and spent two seasons as the head football coach at Muhlenberg College.
Early life
Baughman grew up in Ashtabula, Ohio. He was a three-sport letter winner at Ashtabula High School and was All-Lake Shore League in football and basketball. He played football, baseball, and basketball for the Kent State Golden Flashes and graduated from Kent State University in 1938.
Coaching
Baughman began his coaching career in 1938 at Bremen High School in Bremen, Ohio. In his two seasons at BHS, Baughman's football teams compiled a 14–4 record and his basketball teams went 28–5. In 1940, he became the head football coach at Thomas W. Harvey High School in Painesville, Ohio. He compiled a 25–6–4 record in four seasons and led the Red Raiders to a Lake Shore League championship in 1941. In 1942, he took over the basketball team and in his first season, the Red Raiders went 14–5 and won the Lake Shore League Championship. The team went undefeated in the regular season the following year and repeated as league champions. He also served as athletic director during his final two years at Harvey High School.{{cite news |title=Baughman To Take Heights Football Post |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fnRZAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA7 |access-date=22 June 2024 |work=Painesville Telegraph |date=June 7, 1944}}
In 1944, Baughman became the head football coach at Cleveland Heights High School. Here he compiled a 38–7 record and led Cleveland Heights to the 1945 Lake Erie League championship.{{cite news |title=Canton Lincoln High Coach Selected For BHS Football Berth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XChBAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA1 |access-date=22 June 2024 |work=The Portsmouth Times |date=June 8, 1955}} He also coached the John Carroll University men's basketball team during the 1946–47 season.{{cite news |last1=Cooper |first1=Jack |title=Sporting Around |url=https://collected.jcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1138&context=carrollnews |access-date=22 June 2024 |work=The Carroll News |date=November 15, 1946}}{{cite journal |title=Yearly Record |journal=2023-24 Men's Basketball History & Records Guide |page=29 |url=https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/sidearm.nextgen.sites/jcusports.com/documents/2024/1/8/2023-24_MBB_History_and_Records_Guide.pdf |access-date=22 June 2024 |publisher=John Carroll University}}
In 1949, Baughman was named head coach of the Muhlenberg Mules football team. He succeeded Ben Schwartzwalder, who took the head coaching job at Syracuse University.{{cite news |title=Muhlenberg Names Baughman Grid Coach |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lLghAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA31 |access-date=22 June 2024 |work=Reading Eagle |date=June 26, 1949}} Muhlenberg went 4–11–2 in its two seasons under Baughman.{{cite journal |title=All Time Results |journal=Muhlenberg College Football 2013 Media Guide |page=36 |url=https://webapps.muhlenberg.edu:442/pdf/main/athletics/football13_p2.pdf |access-date=22 June 2024}} One of his players, Sisto Averno, went on to play in the National Football League.[https://archive.org/details/colts-1950-media-guide-baltimore 1950 Baltimore Colts: Press, Radio, Television Guide.] Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Colts, 1950; p. 27.
In 1951, Baughman returned to high school football at Lincoln High School in Canton, Ohio.{{cite news |title=Baughman Is Canton Lincoln Grid Mentor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LY9ZAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA14 |access-date=22 June 2024 |work=Painesville Telegraph |date=May 12, 1951}} Four years later, citing his desire to no longer play "second fiddle" to Canton McKinley High School, he took the head coaching job at Portsmouth High School in Portsmouth, Ohio. The move reunited him with H. W. McKelvey, Portsmouth's superintendent who was principal of Harvey High School when Baughman coached there.{{cite news |last1=Lawson |first1=Fred |title=Portsmouth High Football Card Makes Baughman Wince |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xy1BAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA25 |access-date=22 June 2024 |work=The Portsmouth Times |date=June 24, 1955}} Baughman posted only two winning seasons at PHS (6–3 in 1957 and 7–2 in 1958) and when his contract was up for renewal in 1961, many opponents and supporters appeared before the school board, which ultimately decided to give him a two-year extension. Later that year, Baughman and McKelvey filed a complaint with the Ohio High School Athletic Association after two Portsmouth players, James and Larry Austin, joined the Canton McKinley football team. An investigation by the OHSAA resulted in the cancelation of Canton McKinley's 1962 season and the Austin brothers being ruled permanently ineligible to play football for CMHS.{{cite book |last1=Coughlin |first1=Dan |title=Let's Have Another: Even More Stories About the Most Unusual, Eccentric & Outlandish People I've Known in Four Decades as a Sports Journalist |date=2015 |publisher=Gray & Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SD7sCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT62 |access-date=22 June 2024}} Portsmouth finished 1961 with a 3–7 record and Baughman was hanged in effigy several times during the season. He resigned at the conclusion of the school year to take a teaching position at Mentor High School.{{cite news |last1=Chamis |first1=Chris |title=Search For Grid Coach On After Baughman Resigns |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c8lQAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA10 |access-date=22 June 2024 |work=The Portsmouth Times |date=July 11, 1962}}
Personal life
On December 31, 1933, Baughman married Julia Cooper in Ashtabula. They had two daughters. Julia Baughman died on October 31, 1996, in Cincinnati.{{cite news |title=Julia Baughman, 84, Librarian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ucZQAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA4 |access-date=22 June 2024 |work=Portsmouth Daily Times |date=November 7, 1996}} Baughman died four years later.{{cite news |title=Howard Baughman |work=Cincinnati Enquirer |date=November 18, 2000}}
References
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