Lloyd Grow
{{Short description|American football and basketball coach (1903–1979)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Lloyd E. Grow
| image = Lloyd Dob Grow.png
| alt =
| caption = Grow pictured in 1934 University of Wyoming yearbook
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1903|7|23}}
| birth_place = Nebraska, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1979|6|10|1903|7|23}}
| death_place = Dickson, Tennessee, U.S.
| alma_mater = Northeastern Oklahoma A&M (1929)
| player_sport1 = Football
| player_years2 = 1926–1927
| player_team2 = Nebraska
| player_positions = Center
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1933–1937
| coach_team2 = Wyoming (line)
| coach_years3 = 1939
| coach_team3 = Henderson State
| coach_years4 = 1946
| coach_team4 = Kalamazoo (line)
| coach_years5 = 1949–1952
| coach_team5 = Kalamazoo
| coach_sport6 = Basketball
| coach_years7 = 1946–1953
| coach_team7 = Kalamazoo
| overall_record = 16–24–2 (football)
| bowl_record =
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}}
Lloyd Eugene "Dob" Grow (July 23, 1903 – June 10, 1979) was an American college football and college basketball coach.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wns4AAAAMAAJ&q=%22grow%22 |title=The Kalamazoo College Story: The First Quarter of the Second Century of ... - Arnold Mulder - Google Books |via=Google Books|access-date=July 15, 2013|last1=Mulder |first1=Arnold |year=1958 }} He served as the head football coach at Henderson State Teachers College—now known as Henderson State University—in Arkadelphia, Arkansas in 1939 and Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan from 1949 to 1952, compiling a career college football head coaching record of 16–24–2. Grow was an alumnus of Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College and the University of Nebraska, where he received his Bachelor of Arts.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hkHiAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Lloyd+Grow%22 |title=The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide - National Collegiate Athletic Association - Google Books |year=1952 |via=Google Books|access-date=July 15, 2013}} Grow was an assistant at the University of Wyoming.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qHc4AAAAMAAJ&q=%22Lloyd+E+Grow%22 |title=Kalamazoo College Bulletin: Catalogue - Kalamazoo College - Google Books |year=1947 |via=Google Books|access-date=July 15, 2013}}
Coaching career
Grow was the head football coach at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He held that position for four seasons, from 1949 until 1952. His coaching record at Kalamazoo was 12–20–1.{{cite web
|last=DeLassus
|first=David
|title=Kalamazoo Coaching Records
|publisher=College Football Data Warehouse
|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iii/miaa/kalamazoo/coaching_records.php
|access-date=December 2, 2010
|url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101121023910/http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iii/miaa/kalamazoo/coaching_records.php
|archive-date=November 21, 2010
}}
Death
Grow died in June 1979. An obituary appeared in the Sports News on June 30, 1979.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JFMZAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Grow%2C+LLoyd%22|title=Access|year=1979}}
Head coaching record
=Football=
{{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Henderson State Reddies
| conf = Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference
| startyear = 1939
| endyear = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1939
| name = Henderson State
| overall = 4–4–1
| conference = 3–1–1
| confstanding =
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Henderson State
| overall = 4–4–1
| confrecord = 3–1–1
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Kalamazoo Hornets
| conf = Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
| startyear = 1949
| endyear = 1952
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1949
| name = Kalamazoo
| overall = 2–6
| conference = 1–4
| confstanding = 5th
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1950
| name = Kalamazoo
| overall = 5–4
| conference = 4–1
| confstanding = 2nd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1951
| name = Kalamazoo
| overall = 2–6
| conference = 2–3
| confstanding = T–4th
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1952
| name = Kalamazoo
| overall = 3–4–1
| conference = 2–3
| confstanding = T–3rd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Kalamazoo
| overall = 12–20–1
| confrecord = 9–11
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall = 16–24–2
| bowls = no
| poll = no
| polltype =
| legend = no
}}
References
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External links
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