| Guy Lowman | |
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| Lowman pictured in The Royal Purple 1913, Kansas State yearbook
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| Sport(s) | Football, basketball, baseball |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | May 1877 |
| Place of birth | Iowa |
| Died | September 15, 1943 (aged 66) |
| Playing career | |
| Baseball 1905 |
Springfield |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football 1909 1910 1911–1914 1918 Basketball 1907–1908 1908–1910 1911–1914 1916–1917 1917–1920 Baseball 1907–1908 1909–1910 1911 1912–1915 1918 1921–1932 |
Missouri (assistant) Alabama Kansas State Wisconsin Central Missouri State Missouri Kansas State Indiana Wisconsin Central Missouri State Missouri Alabama Kansas State Wisconsin Wisconsin |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 24–22–3 (football) 100–57 (basketball) |
| Statistics | |
| College Football Data Warehouse | |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| Football 1 KCAC (1912) |
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Guy Sumner Lowman (May 1877 – September 15, 1943) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and a player of baseball. He served as the head football coach at the University of Alabama (1910), Kansas State University (1911–1914), and the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1918). Lowman also coached basketball at Central Missouri State University, now known as the University of Central Missouri (1907–1908), the University of Missouri, (1908–1910), Kansas State (1911–1914), Indiana University (1916), and Wisconsin (1917–1920) and baseball at Central Missouri State (1907–1908), Missouri (1909–1910), Alabama (1911), Kansas State (1912–1915), and Wisconsin (1918, 1921–1932).
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Lowman graduated from Springfield College in 1905, where he lettered in baseball.
Following graduation, he began his career at Central Missouri State University, coaching baseball and basketball from 1907 to 1908. Subsequently, from 1908 to 1910, he coached baseball and basketball at the University of Missouri, posting a 19–15 record in basketball and 20–11–1 record in baseball. In 1910, he moved to the University of Alabama, where he coached the football team for one season, recording a 4–4 mark.
Leaving Alabama after one season, he moved to Kansas State University, where he coached football (four seasons), basketball (three seasons), and baseball (four seasons) between 1911 and 1915. His basketball teams posted winning records each year he coached them. His best football season at Kansas State was 1912, when his squad posted an 8–2 record and won the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference title.[1] He was fired after his 1914 football team recorded a 1–5–1 mark.
In 1916, Lowman moved to Indiana University, where he coached the basketball squad to a 13–6 record. From 1917 to 1920, he coached baseball and basketball at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He also coached the Wisconsin football team for the 1918 season, posting a 3–3 mark. His 1917–1918 basketball team posted a 14–3 record and won the Big Ten Conference title.
After his coaching career ended, he remained at the University of Wisconsin–Madison as a professor. The baseball field at Wisconsin was named in his honor.
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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| Alabama Crimson Tide (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1910) | |||||||||
| 1910 | Alabama | 4–4 | 1–4 | ||||||
| Alabama: | 4–4 | 1–4 | |||||||
| Kansas State Wildcats (Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference) (1911–1912) | |||||||||
| 1911 | Kansas State | 5–4–1 | |||||||
| 1912 | Kansas State | 8–2 | 1st | ||||||
| Kansas State Wildcats (Missouri Valley Conference) (1913–1914) | |||||||||
| 1913 | Kansas State | 3–4–1 | 0–2 | 6th | |||||
| 1914 | Kansas State | 1–5–1 | 0–3 | 6th | |||||
| Kansas State: | 17–15–3 | 0–5 | |||||||
| Wisconsin Badgers (Big Ten Conference) (1918) | |||||||||
| 1918 | Wisconsin | 3–3 | 1–2 | 7th | |||||
| Wisconsin: | 3–3 | 1–2 | |||||||
| Total: | 24–22–3 | ||||||||
| National championship Conference title Conference division title | |||||||||
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