L. F. "Pop" Klein
Biographical details | |
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Born | c. 1900 |
Died | October 14, 1968 (aged 68) Prescott, Arizona, U.S. |
Alma mater | Cotner |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1923–1934 | Crete HS (NE) |
1935–1942 | Kearney State |
1945–1958 | Nebraska (assistant) |
Basketball | |
1923–1935 | Crete HS (NE) |
1935–1937 | Kearney State |
1945–1946 | Nebraska |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 42–21–1 (college football) 22–28 (college basketball) 89–19 (high school football) 200–54 (high school basketball) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
Football 4 NIAA (1936, 1938, 1941–1942) | |
Lloyd Frederick "Pop" Klein (c. 1900 – October 14, 1968) was a coach of football and basketball at the high school and collegiate levels.
He began his career as a football and basketball at Crete High School where he accumulated an 89–19 record in football and 200–54 in basketball.[1] He won a state basketball championship at Crete in 1928.[2]
Klein then moved on to become the head football coach at the University of Nebraska–Kearney where led them to a 42–21–1 in eight seasons. Klein was also the Nebraska–Kearney head men's basketball coach for two seasons (1935–1937) where he led the teams to a 15–15 record.[3] After that, he became an assistant football coach at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln for 14 seasons.[4] During his first year in Lincoln, he stepped in to be the men's basketball coach for one year due to the head coach being ill.[5]
Klein died at the age of 68, on October 14, 1968, at his home in Prescott, Arizona.[6]
Head coaching record
College football
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Kearney State Antelopes (Nebraska Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1935–1943) | |||||||||
1935 | Kearney State | 5–3 | 2–2 | T–2nd | |||||
1936 | Kearney State | 7–2 | 3–0 | 1st | |||||
1937 | Kearney State | 5–3–1 | 1–1–1 | T–2nd | |||||
1938 | Kearney State | 4–4–1 | 2–0–1 | T–1st | |||||
1939 | Kearney State | 3–5 | 0–3 | 4th | |||||
1940 | Kearney State | 7–2 | 2–1 | 2nd | |||||
1941 | Kearney State | 8–0 | 3–0 | 1st | |||||
1942 | Kearney State | 6–2 | 2–1 | 1st | |||||
Kearney State: | 45–21–2 | 15–8–2 | |||||||
Total: | 42–21–1 | ||||||||
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth |
References
- ^ Ellis, Mark (2007). A Century of Sports at the University of Nebraska at Kearney (1st ed.). ISBN 9780738550640. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
- ^ "L.F. "Pop" Klein". Beatrice Public Schools. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
- ^ "MBB Records - Year by Year record" (PDF). April 10, 2013. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
- ^ "Assistant Football Coaches at Nebraska Since 1926". huskers.com. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
- ^ "Nebraska Coaching Ledger" (pdf). huskers.com. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
- ^ "Coach Lloyd 'Pop' Klein, 68, dies". Arizona Republic. Phoenix, Arizona. October 17, 1968. p. 2C. Retrieved January 19, 2019 – via Newspapers.com .
External links
- Nebraska–Kearney Hall of Fame profile
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