Jim Lance

{{Short description|American football player and coach (1931–2016)}}

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| name = Jim Lance

| image = LanceJim.png

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1931|4|21}}

| birth_place = Evansville, Indiana, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|2|25|1931|4|21}}

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| alma_mater =

| player_years1 = 1956–1957

| player_team1 = Murray State

| player_positions =

| coach_years1 = 1959–1960

| coach_team1 = Vero Beach HS (FL) (B team)

| coach_years2 = 1965–1968

| coach_team2 = Emporia State (assistant)

| coach_years3 = 1969–1970

| coach_team3 = Emporia State

| coach_years4 = 1973–1974

| coach_team4 = Texas A&I (assistant)

| overall_record = 7–11

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James E. Lance (April 21, 1931 – February 25, 2016) was an American football coach. He was the 16th head football coach at Kansas State Teachers College—now known as Emporia State University—in Emporia, Kansas, serving for two seasons, from 1969 to 1970, and compiling a record of record of 7–11.{{Cite web |url=http://www.emporia.edu/athletics/football/07ESUFBmediaguide.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=December 11, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927062323/http://www.emporia.edu/athletics/football/07ESUFBmediaguide.pdf |archive-date=September 27, 2011 |url-status=dead }}

Lance was born April 21, 1931, in Evansville, Indiana. After serving in the United States Navy during the Korean War, Lance graduated from Murray State University in 1959 with a Bachelor of Science. He earned a master's degree in education from the University of Mississippi in 1974, and a Ph.D. in physiology from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1974. Lance died on February 25, 2016, after suffering from Parkinson's disease.{{cite news |author= |title=James E. (Jim) Lance (1931 - 2016) |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/herald/obituary.aspx?n=james-e-lance-jim&pid=179491741 |newspaper=Miami Herald |location=Doral, Florida |date=April 1, 2016 |access-date=August 15, 2019 |via=Legacy.com }}