Lamar Allen

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{{Infobox college coach

| name = Lamar Allen

| image = Lamar Buddy Allen.jpg

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1914|11|25}}

| birth_place = Pine Bluff, Arkansas, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1989|5|16|1914|11|25}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| alma_mater =

| player_years1 = 1936–1939

| player_team1 = Arkansas AM&N

| player_positions = Quarterback

| coach_years1 = 1946–1949

| coach_team1 = Arkansas AM&N

| coach_years2 = 1959

| coach_team2 = Arkansas AM&N (line)

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| overall_record = 17–19–5

| bowl_record = 1–0

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| position = Center fielder

| bats = Unknown

| throws = Unknown

| debutleague = Negro league baseball

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| debutyear = 1940

| debutteam = Birmingham Black Barons

| finaldate =

| finalyear = 1940

| finalteam = Birmingham Black Barons

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| teams =

• Birmingham Black Barons (1940)

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}}

Lamar "Buddy" Allen (November 25, 1914 – May 16, 1989){{Cite web|url=http://arkbaseball.com/tiki-index.php?page=Buddy+Allen|title=Arkansas Baseball Encyclopedia | Buddy Allen}} was an American college football player and coach and baseball center fielder in the Negro leagues.{{Cite book |last=Riley |first=James A. |title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues |url=https://archive.org/details/biographicalency00rile |url-access=registration |place=New York |publisher=Carroll & Graf |year=1994 |isbn=0-7867-0959-6 }} He served as the head football coach at Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical & Normal College (Arkansas AM&N)—now known as University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff—for four seasons, from to 1946 to 1949, compiling a record of 17–19–5.{{Cite web|last=DeLassus

|first=David|title=Arkansas-Pine Bluff Coaching Records|publisher=College Football Data Warehouse |url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/southwestern/arkansas_pine_bluff/coaching_records.php|accessdate=December 15, 2013 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216051507/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/southwestern/arkansas_pine_bluff/coaching_records.php|archivedate=December 16, 2013}}

Allen played as a back for Merrill High School, a segregated black school in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, which won national championships in 1932, his freshman year, and 1933. His accomplishments were such that even the state's white newspapers, including the Arkansas Gazette took notice.{{cite web |title=Arkansas's "White" Newspaper Chose All-Star Teams for State's All-Black Schools |date=12 April 2017 |url=https://www.bestofarkansassports.com/arkansass-white-paper-chose-all-star-teams-for-states-all-black-schools/ |accessdate=November 17, 2018}} He played baseball with the Birmingham Black Barons in 1940.{{cite web|url=http://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=allen01bud |title=Buddy Allen Seamheads Profile |publisher=seamheads.com |access-date=January 20, 2021}}

Allen earned a master's degree in education from the University of Southern California (USC) in 1951 and continued there with postgraduate work in administration and educaftion until 1953. He returned to the football coaching staff Arkansas AM&N in 1959 as line coach under Charles Spearman.{{cite news |author= |title=Arkansas State Adds Lamar Allen To The Golden Lions' Coaching Staff |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-call/157805391/ |newspaper=The Call |location=Kansas City, Missouri |date=September 4, 1959 |page=10 |access-date=October 25, 2024 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}