Chuck Klausing

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Chuck Klausing
Sport	Football
Born	April 19, 1925
Place of birth	Wilmerding, Pennsylvania
Career highlights
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1964-1985	Indiana University of Pennsylvania Carnegie Mellon University
College Football Hall of Fame, 1998 (Bio)

Chuck Klausing (April 19, 1925 – ) was head coach six years, 1964-69, at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, located at Indiana, PA. His record was 47-10, and his 1968 team was in a post season game, losing to Delaware 31-24 in the Boardwalk Bowl, played in Convention Hall in Atlantic City. He was head coach 10 years, 1976-85, at Carnegie Mellon. His teams won six conference championships and made the NCAA Division III playoffs four times. The 1979 team won the Lambert Trophy, given to the best small college team in the East. His record there was 77-15-2. In these combined totals for 16 years as a college head coach, Klausing was 124-25-2, a percentage of .828. He was head coach at the high school and prep school level in Pennsylvania for 19 years. This covered stints at Pitcairn 1948-53, Braddock 1954-59, and Kiski Prep 1987-93. His Braddock teams had a 6-year record of 53-0-1 and were featured in Sports Illustrated. For 11 years he was an assistant coach at the college level -- Rutgers 1960, Army 1961-63, West Virginia 1970-75, and Pittsburgh 1986. Chuck Klausing was born April 19, 1925, in Wilmerding, PA. He graduated at Wilmerding High School and joined the Marine V-12 program at Penn State. He was a center on the Penn State football squad in 1943-44. He served with the Marines as a second lieutenant in the Pacific theater. He played center for Slippery Rock 1946-47 and was captain the second year. In 1964 he started summertime learning camps for kids. Each camp lasts three days. Total enrollment at five camps each summer averages 1,000 kids. Camps are held on college campuses. Klausing was named to eight Halls of Fame and wrote a book, "Never Lost a Game; Time Just Ran Out." In 1997 he served as advisory coach at the South Carolina School for the Deaf.