Kip Taylor
{{Short description|American football player and coach (1907–2002)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Kip Taylor
| image = Taylor-Kip-1951.jpg
| image_upright =
| caption = Taylor in 1951
| alt =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1907|11|25}}
| birth_place = Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2002|7|17|1907|11|25}}
| death_place = Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
| alma_mater =
| player_years1 = 1927–1930
| player_team1 = Michigan
| player_positions = End
| coach_years1 = 1935–1939
| coach_team1 = George Rogers Clark HS (IN)
| coach_years2 = 1940–1945
| coach_team2 = Pioneer HS (MI)
| coach_years3 = 1946
| coach_team3 = Syracuse (ends)
| coach_years4 = 1947–1948
| coach_team4 = Michigan State (ends)
| coach_years5 = 1949–1954
| coach_team5 = Oregon State
| overall_record = 20–36 (college)
| bowl_record =
| tournament_record =
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}}
LaVerne Harrison "Kip" Taylor (November 25, 1907 – July 17, 2002) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Oregon State College, now Oregon State University, from 1949 to 1954, compiling a record of 20–36. He played college football as an end as the University of Michigan from 1927 to 1930.
Playing career
Taylor earned all-state honors in football and basketball at Pioneer High School. He attended the University of Michigan, graduating with an education degree in 1931. There he played right end for the Wolverines. Taylor scored the first touchdown at Michigan Stadium in 1927.
Coaching career
Taylor began his coaching career at the high school level. He was the head football coach at George Rogers Clark High School in Whiting, Indiana before returning to his alma mater, Pioneer High School, as head football coach in 1940.{{cite news |author= |title=LaVerne Taylor New Pioneer Grid Coach |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61531621/battle-creek-enquirer/ |newspaper=Battle Creek Enquirer |location=Battle Creek, Michigan |agency=Associated Press |date=May 12, 1940 |page=11 |access-date=October 21, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} In six seasons at Pioneer, he led his teams to a record of 37–5 with undefeated seasons in 1940, 1941, and 1943. In January 1946, he was hired as an assistant coach at Syracuse University to serve under head football coach Biggie Munn.{{cite news |author= |title=Ann Arbor Coach Gets Bid To Join Munn At Syracuse |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61531489/the-escanaba-daily-press/ |newspaper=Daily Press |location=Escanaba, Michigan |agency=Associated Press |date=January 15, 1946 |page=8 |access-date=October 21, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
File:Mann-and-Anderson-1951.jpg
At Oregon State, Taylor's teams had a 20–36 record in his six seasons guiding the Beavers, but that included a 5–1 record against Oregon. In his first season, he led the 1949 Oregon State Beavers football team to an upset of eighth-ranked Michigan State, 25–20, when they were three-touchdown underdogs.
Under Taylor's watch the Oregon State football team was racially integrated for the first time. In 1951 he added two black players to the squad, defensive halfback Bill Anderson and halfback and safety Dave Mann. Both would start for Taylor during that season.Pigskin Review: Oregon State vs. Southern California, (Los Angeles: University of Southern California), vol. 30, no. 3 (Oct. 13, 1951), pp. 7, 10.
The single-wing formation-oriented Taylor had a poor track record as a head coach and the 1958 season was particularly disastrous, following up a season opening win against Idaho with eight consecutive losses.Associated Press, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-dispatch-kip-taylor-oregon-state-co/161278950/ "Kip Taylor, Oregon State Coach, Quits,"] Moline [IL] Dispatch, Nov. 23, 1954, p. 20. This included the first loss to the bitter rival University of Oregon Ducks since 1948. On November 22, 1954, with a career record at Oregon State of 20–36, Taylor and his entire staff submitted their resignations, effective July 1.
Later life and death
Taylor managed the Columbia Edgewater Country Club in Portland, Oregon, and the University of Michigan Golf Course before retiring in 1972. Taylor died of natural causes on July 17, 2002, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.{{cite news |author= |title=Ex-OSU coach Kip Taylor dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61529915/albany-democrat-herald/ |newspaper=Albany Democrat-Herald |location=Albany, Oregon |agency=Associated Press |date=July 19, 2002 |page=15 |access-date=October 21, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
Head coaching record
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Oregon State Beavers
| conf = Pacific Coast Conference
| startyear = 1949
| endyear = 1954
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1949
| name = Oregon State
| overall = 7–3
| conference = 5–3
| confstanding = 5th
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| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1950
| name = Oregon State
| overall = 3–6
| conference = 2–5
| confstanding = 8th
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| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1951
| name = Oregon State
| overall = 4–6
| conference = 3–5
| confstanding = 6th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1952
| name = Oregon State
| overall = 2–7
| conference = 1–6
| confstanding = 9th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1953
| name = Oregon State
| overall = 3–6
| conference = 3–5
| confstanding = 6th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1954
| name = Oregon State
| overall = 1–8
| conference = 1–6
| confstanding = T–8th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Oregon State
| overall = 20–36
| confrecord = 15–30
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall = 20–36
| bowls = no
| poll = no
| polltype =
| legend = no
}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=2307|title=Kip Taylor|publisher=College Football Data Warehouse|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906043647/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=2307|archivedate=September 6, 2015}}
References
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