- Guy Lowman
Guy Sumner Lowman (born May 1877,
Iowa ; died 1943) was a successful college athletics coach at several major American universities in the early 20th century.Lowman graduated from
Springfield College in 1905, where he lettered in baseball.Following graduation, he began his career at
Central Missouri State , coaching baseball and basketball from 1907 to 1908. Subsequently, from 1908 to 1910, he coached baseball and basketball at theUniversity of Missouri , posting a 19-15 record in basketball and 20-11-1 record in baseball. In 1910, he moved to theUniversity of Alabama , where he coached the football team for one season, recording a 4-4 mark.Leaving Alabama after one season, he moved to
Kansas State University , where he coached baseball (4 seasons), basketball (3 seasons) and football (4 seasons) from 1911 to 1915. His basketball teams posted winning records each year he coached them. His best football season at Kansas State was 1912, when his squad posted an 8-2 record and won theKansas Collegiate Athletic Conference title. [ [http://www.kancoll.org/khq/1940/40_3_evans.htm College Football in Kansas, by Harold C. Evans, Kansas Historical Quarterly, August, 1940 ] ] He was fired after his 1914 football team recorded a 1-5-1 mark.In 1916, Lowman moved to Indiana University, where he coached the basketball squad to a 13-6 record. From 1917 to 1920, he coached baseball and basketball at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison . He also coached the Wisconsin football team for the 1918 season, posting a 3-3 mark. His 1917-1918 basketball team posted a 14-3 record and won theBig Ten Conference title.After his coaching career ended, he remained at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a professor. The baseball field at Wisconsin was named in his honor.
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* [http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=1405 Major college football coaching record]
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