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Zora G. Clevenger was an American football, basketball, and baseball player, coach, and pioneering athletic director. He served as the head football coach at Nebraska Wesleyan University (1908–1910), the University of Tennessee (1911–1915), and Kansas State University (1916–1919), compiling a record of 47–32–7. Clevenger was also the head basketball coach at Indiana University (1904–1906), Nebraska Wesleyan (1907–1911), Tennessee (1911–1916), and Kansas State (1916–1919), and was baseball coach at Indiana (1905–1906), Nebraska Wesleyan (1908–1911), Tennessee (1911–1916), and Kansas State (1919–1921). Clevenger served as the athletic director at Kansas State (1916–1920), the University of Missouri (1921–1923), and Indiana (1923–1946). He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1968.
John Reinhold "Chief" Bender was an American football player and coach of football, basketball and baseball. He served as the head football coach at Black Hills State University (1905), Washington State University, Haskell Indian Nations University (1908–1909), St. Louis University (1910–1911), Kansas State University (1915), and the University of Tennessee (1916–1920), compiling a career record of 67–32–7. He is one of the few college football head coaches to have non-consecutive tenure at the same school. Bender was also the head basketball coach at Washington State (1907–1908) and Tennessee, and the head baseball coach at Washington State and Tennessee.
Guy Sumner Lowman was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and a player of baseball. He served as the head football coach at Warrensburg Teachers College—now the University of Central Missouri (1907), the University of Alabama (1910), Kansas State University (1911–1914), and the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1918). Lowman also coached basketball at Warrensburg Teachers College, now known as the University of Central Missouri (1907–1908), the University of Missouri, (1908–1910), Kansas State (1911–1914), Indiana University (1916), and Wisconsin (1917–1920) and baseball at Central Missouri State (1907–1908), Missouri (1909–1910), Alabama (1911), Kansas State (1912–1915), and Wisconsin.
Alpha Brumage was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball.
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Chester Leland Brewer was an American football, basketball, baseball, and track and field coach and athletic director. He served as the head football coach at Albion College (1899–1902), Michigan Agricultural College—now known as Michigan State University, the University of Missouri (1911–1913), and the Northern Branch of the College of Agriculture—now known as the University of California, Davis (1922), compiling a career record of 97–51–4. Brewer was also the head basketball coach at Michigan Agricultural (1903–1910), Missouri (1910–1911) and Northern Branch (1922–1923), tallying a mark of 84–36, and the head baseball coach at Michigan Agricultural and Missouri, amassing a record of 148–93–4.
Albert Rutherford Kennedy was an American football player and coach. He played college football at both the University of Kansas for three seasons, from 1895 to 1897, including one as team captain, and at the University of Pennsylvania, for one season in 1899. Kennedy also played one year of professional football immediately after graduating from Penn. During this time he played in the first professional football game ever played in Madison Square Garden which was also the first indoor professional football game ever played. After his one and only year of playing professionally, he returned to his home state of Kansas and coached football at Washburn University, at the University of Kansas (1904–1910), and at the Haskell Institute—now known as Haskell Indian Nations University (1911–1915), compiling a career record of 95–36–10. His 52 wins with the Kansas Jayhawks football team are the most in the program's history. He remains, as of 2018, the last coach to lead the Jayhawks to a perfect season.
Michael Francis Ahearn was a British-American athlete and college athletics administrator. Ahearn played and coached American football, basketball, and baseball, and was a college professor and athletics administrator at Kansas State Agricultural College, now Kansas State University. He also helped guide the evolution of the rules of modern football, serving ten years on the college football rules committee (1922–1931), initially under Secretary Walter Camp and alongside Amos Alonzo Stagg.
Roy Kehl Thomas was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He was the seventh head football coach at Fairmount College—now known as Wichita State University—located in Wichita, Kansas and he held that position for three seasons, from 1909 until 1911. His record at Fairmount was 15–8–2. The 1911 team finished the season with a record of 7–1. They were declared the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference champions. Thomas coached the football team at Ohio Wesleyan University in 1913.
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This timeline of college football in Kansas sets forth notable college football-related events that occurred in the state of Kansas.
The 1911 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas in the Missouri Valley Conference during the 1911 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Ralph W. Sherwin, the Jayhawks compiled a 4–2–2 record, finished in third place in the conference, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 81 to 44. The Jayhawks played their home games at McCook Field in Lawrence, Kansas. Earl Ammons was the team captain.
The Kansas State–Nebraska football rivalry was an American college football rivalry between the Kansas State Wildcats and Nebraska Cornhuskers.
The 1911 Fairmount Wheatshockers football team was an American football team that represented Fairmount College as an independent during the 1911 college football season. In its third and final season under head coach Roy K. Thomas, the team compiled a 7–1 record. The team was recognized as the Kansas state champion for 1911.
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