Clarence L. Dow
American football and basketball coach and professor
About Clarence L. Dow
Lived 1895 – 1955 (aged 59–60).
Charles Ladd "Ren" Thomas (1895 – August 1955) was an American football and basketball coach and professor. He served as the head football coach at Nebraska Wesleyan University from 1925 to 1926, compiling a record of 12–4–2. Dow was also the head basketball coach at Nebraska Wesleyan from 1924 to 1930, tallying a mark of 40–55.
A native of Cattaraugus, New York, Dow taught at Clarion State Teachers College—now known as Clarion University of Pennsylvania—before becoming chair of the department of geology and geography at Ohio University. While coaching at Nebraska Wesleyan, he earned a PhD at the University of Nebraska. He died in August 1955 of a heart attack while returning from Japan aboard a Japanese ship.
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Who was Clarence L. Dow?
American football and basketball coach and professor
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Clarence L. Dow was born in 1895.
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Clarence L. Dow died in 1955.
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