Chuck Klausing

Chuck Klausing (April 19, 1925 – February 15, 2018 ) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Indiana University of Pennsylvania from 1964 to 1969 and at Carnegie Mellon University from 1976 to 1985, compiling a career college football record of 124–25–2. Klausing's 1968 IUP Indians team played in the Boardwalk Bowl, losing to Delaware. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1998. He retired as the 19th winningest coach in NCAA football history.

Coaching career Klausing was the head football coach at Pitcairn High School from 1948 to 1953 and Braddock High School from 1954 through 1959, where his teams won an unprecedented six consecutive Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League (WPIAL) championships. His six teams at Braddock went 54–0–1 during that period. They broke the national undefeated record set by Massillon Washington High School.

Klausing was head coach at Carnegie Mellon University from 1976 to 1985, winning six conference championships and making the NCAA Division III playoffs four times. He won the National Coach of the Year award by ABC-TV in 1979 and TBS in 1983.

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