Charles Lappenbusch

Coaching career After graduating from the University of Washington, from which he received a bachelor's degree and master's degree, He also assisted in coaching the freshman team that year. and head football coach at Albany College (now known as Lewis & Clark College). "I had been canned by the depression," he later recalled.

Lappenbusch went on to serve with the school for 42 years. Lappenbusch compiled an 81–62–15 record as Western Washington's football coach. His record was at the time the best in school history and in 1938 his team posted their only-ever undefeated, untied season. He wrote several books on the topic and was called a "genius" by many players that he coached, although "his theories and lectures were so complicated that those in attendance often didn't know whether to take notes or laugh," according to The Bellingham Herald.