Doug Weaver

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Douglas W. Weaver (born 1930) was a college football coach and athletics director. As head football coach at Kansas State from 1960 to 1966, his teams were notoriously awful and posted two of the longest losing streaks in college football history. He later achieved positive acclaim as the athletic director at Michigan State University.

Weaver was used to success on the football field, starring as a center on Michigan State's great early 1950s teams. After graduation, he served as an assistant on Duffy Daugherty's staff at his alma mater, and at the University of Missouri under Dan Devine. Prior to the 1960 season, he was hired as the head coach at Kansas State at age 29.

In seven seasons at Kansas State, he compiled a miserable 8-60-1 record. His final two seasons he didn't win a game. He also guided Kansas State to a winless 0-10 record in 1962. His 1961-1962 teams posted a losing streak of 18 games – tied for the 20th-longest streak in college football history. His 1964-1966 teams posted a losing streak of 17 games. (The second streak was broken in 1966 by a tie with the University of Kansas, which was followed by three more losses in Weaver's last three games.) Weaver's best season at K-State came in 1964, when his team went 3-7, with the three wins coming by a combined 6 points. But he retained his sense of humor. According to a Sports Illustrated article, after he was hanged in effigy at K-State, he said: "I’m glad it happened in front of the library. I’ve always emphasized scholarship." He was fired following the 1966 season.

After being fired from Kansas State, Weaver attended law school at the University of Kansas. He returned to coaching football after earning his law degree, serving as an assistant coach at KU under Pepper Rodgers for the 1970 season. In 1973, he was named athletic director at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. In 1974, he named himself as head football coach at SIU, where he posted characteristic records of 2-9 and 1-9-1 during the 1974 and 1975 seasons. In 1976, he left SIU to take over as athletic director at Georgia Tech. He was succeeded as athletic director at Southern Illinois by Gale Sayers. Notably, while AD at Georgia Tech, Weaver had to fire his old boss Pepper Rodgers as football coach.

Finally, in 1979 Weaver returned to his alma mater as athletic director, a position he held for a decade, until he retired in 1989. MSU's indoor practice facility is named in his honor.

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NAME	Weaver, Doug
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Weaver, Douglas W.
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Football player & coach, Athletic director
DATE OF BIRTH	1930
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