Rome Rankin
{{Short description|American football and basketball coach (1900–1981)}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Rome Rankin
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1900|8|11}}
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| death_date = June 1981 (aged 80)
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| alma_mater = Kentucky (Ph.D., 1947)
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1935–1942
| coach_team2 = Eastern Kentucky
| coach_years3 = 1945–1946
| coach_team3 = Eastern Kentucky
| coach_years4 = 1947
| coach_team4 = Maine (assistant)
| coach_sport5 = Basketball
| coach_years6 = 1935–1943
| coach_team6 = Eastern Kentucky
| coach_years7 = 1943–1944
| coach_team7 = Kentucky (assistant)
| coach_years8 = 1944–1946
| coach_team8 = Eastern Kentucky
| coach_years9 = 1949–1954
| coach_team9 = Maine
| admin_years1 = 1951–1966
| admin_team1 = Maine
| overall_record = 56–24–6 (football)
173–106 (basketball)
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Rome Rankin (August 11, 1900 – June 1981){{cite web|url=https://www.fold3.com/record/525111-rome-rankin|title=Rome Rankin|publisher=Fold3|accessdate=May 8, 2020}} was an American football and basketball coach.
Eastern Kentucky University
He served as the head football coach at Eastern Kentucky University from 1935 to 1942 and from 1945 to 1946.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_60fBgAAQBAJ|title=A History of Eastern Kentucky University: The School of Opportunity|first=William E.|last=Ellis|date=January 13, 2015|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=9780813159607|access-date=December 12, 2019}} He was also the school's head men's basketball coach from 1935 to 1943 and from 1944 to 1946.{{cite web|url=https://ekusports.com/sports/2009/11/13/MBBALL_1113091114.aspx|title=Men's Basketball Coaching Records|publisher=Eastern Kentucky Colonels|access-date=December 12, 2019}}
University of Kentucky
While Eastern Kentucky University put their athletic program on hiatus during World War II, Rankin served as an assistant to basketball coach Adolph Rupp at the University of Kentucky for one season (1943–1944).{{cite web|url=https://ekusports.com/sports/2009/11/13/MBBALL_1113091114.aspx|title=Men's Basketball Coaching Records|publisher=Eastern Kentucky Colonels|access-date=December 12, 2019}}
University of Maine
He served as the head basketball coach at the University of Maine from 1949 to 1954.{{cite web|url=https://goblackbears.com/hof.aspx?hof=167|title=Rome Rankin|publisher=Maine Black Bears|access-date=December 12, 2019}} He selected several future Maine Hall of Famers, including Jack Butterfield and Harold Westerman.{{Cite web |title=Dr. Rome Rankin (2008) - University of Maine Sports Hall of Fame |url=https://goblackbears.com/honors/university-of-maine-sports-hall-of-fame/dr-rome-rankin/167 |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=University of Maine Athletics |language=en}} He also served as an assistant football coach during his early tenure.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7dgnAAAAMAAJ|title=Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Volume 19|publisher=American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation|year=1948|access-date=December 12, 2019}}
References
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