Claude Rothgeb
American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach, college athletics administrator
About Claude Rothgeb
Lived 1880 – 1944 (aged 64). Claude Rothgeb was an American baseball player, basketball coach, athletics competitor and american football player.
Claude James Rothgeb (January 1, 1880 – July 5, 1944) was an American football, basketball, baseball player, and coach. He served as the head football coach at the Agricultural College of Colorado, now Colorado State University, from 1906 to 1909, at Colorado College from 1910 to 1918, and at Rice University in 1928, compiling a career college football record of 47–36–3. Rothgeb played football and basketball and ran track at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, from which he graduated in 1905. He played for Major League Baseball's Washington Senators in 1905.
Rothgeb died at Voss' Birchwood Lodge in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin.
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Who was Claude Rothgeb?
American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach, college athletics administrator (1880-1944)
When was Claude Rothgeb born?
Claude Rothgeb was born on 1 January 1880 in Milford.
When did Claude Rothgeb die?
Claude Rothgeb died on 6 July 1944 in Manitowish Waters.
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Claude Rothgeb was a baseball player, basketball coach, athletics competitor and american football player.
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Claude Rothgeb was American.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Claude Rothgeb. https://biography.guide/claude-rothgeb/
MLA: "Claude Rothgeb." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/claude-rothgeb/.
Chicago: "Claude Rothgeb." Biography.guide. https://biography.guide/claude-rothgeb/.
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