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{{Short description|American football, basketball, and baseball coach}}
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| name = Lamar Hoover
| name = Lamar Hoover
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| sport = [[American football|Football]], [[basketball]], [[baseball]]
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1887|2|27}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1887|2|27}}
| birth_place = [[Cambridge, Kansas]]
| birth_place = [[Peabody, Kansas]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1944|12|18|1887|2|27}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1944|12|18|1887|2|27}}
| death_place = [[Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]]
| death_place = [[Muskogee, Oklahoma]], U.S.
| alma_mater = [[Baker University]]<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19221111&id=FORiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6HgNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5230,1196921]</ref>
| alma_mater = [[Baker University]]
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1916–1917
| coach_years2 = 1916–1917
| coach_team2 = [[Wichita State Shockers football|Fairmount]]
| coach_team2 = [[Wichita State Shockers football|Fairmount]]
| coach_years3 = 1921–1922
| coach_years3 = 1921–1922
| coach_team3 = [[Wichita State Shockers football|Fairmount]]
| coach_team3 = Fairmount
| coach_years4 = 1923–1924
| coach_sport4 = Basketball
| coach_team4 = [[Oklahoma City Chiefs football|Oklahoma City]]
| coach_years5 = 1916–1918
| coach_sport5 = Basketball
| coach_team5 = [[Wichita State Shockers men's basketball|Fairmount]]
| coach_years6 = 1921–1923
| coach_years6 = 1916–1918
| coach_team6 = [[Wichita State Shockers men's basketball|Fairmount]]
| coach_team6 = [[Wichita State Shockers men's basketball|Fairmount]]
| coach_years7 = 1923–1925
| coach_years7 = 1921–1923
| coach_team7 = [[Oklahoma City Stars men's basketball|Oklahoma City]]
| coach_team7 = Fairmount
| coach_years8 = 1923–1925
| coach_sport8 = Baseball
| coach_team8 = [[Oklahoma City Stars men's basketball|Oklahoma City]]
| coach_years9 = 1917–1919
| coach_sport9 = Baseball
| coach_team9 = [[Wichita State Shockers baseball|Fairmount]]
| coach_years10 = 1917–1919
| overall_record = 18–14–4 (football)<br>3–2 (baseball)
| coach_team10 = [[Wichita State Shockers baseball|Fairmount]]
| overall_record = 20–27–5 (football)<br>3–2 (baseball)
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'''Chester Lamar Hoover''' (February 27, 1887 — December 18, 1944) was an American [[college football]], [[college basketball]], and [[college baseball]] coach. He served two stints as the head football at Fairmount College—now known as [[Wichita State University]]—in [[Wichita, Kansas]], from 1916 and 1917 and again from 1921 to 1922 and as head football coach at [[Oklahoma City University]] from 1923 to 1924.<ref>[http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/discontinued/enwiki/w/wichita_state/coaching_records.php Wichita St. Coaching Records<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929211539/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/discontinued/enwiki/w/wichita_state/coaching_records.php |date=September 29, 2012 }}</ref> Prior to coaching at Fairmount, Hoover attended [[Baker University]], where he was regarded as one of their top athletes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IixMAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Lamar+Hoover%22+baker|title = Ancestors of Jacob & Esther Garber and Their Descendants|year = 1970}}</ref> In the 1906–07 basketball season, Hoover, described as "one of the outstanding guards of the midlands", lead the Baker team to an undefeated season, under coach [[Phog Allen]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GesJAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Lamar+Hoover%22+baker|title = The Cavalcade of Basketball|last1 = Weyand|first1 = Alexander M.|year = 1960}}</ref>

'''Chester Lamar Hoover''' (February 27, 1887 — December 18, 1944) was an [[American football]], [[basketball]], and [[baseball]] coach. He served as the 13th head football at Fairmount College—now known as [[Wichita State University]]—in [[Wichita, Kansas]] and he held that position for four seasons, from 1916 until 1917 and again from 1921 until 1922, compiling a record of 18–14–4.<ref>[http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/discontinued/enwiki/w/wichita_state/coaching_records.php Wichita St. Coaching Records<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929211539/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/discontinued/enwiki/w/wichita_state/coaching_records.php |date=September 29, 2012 }}</ref> Prior to coaching at Fairmount, Hoover attended [[Baker University]], where he was regarded as one of their top athletes.<ref>[https://books.google.ca/books?id=IixMAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Lamar+Hoover%22+baker&dq=%22Lamar+Hoover%22+baker&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NkNJUe7uO8mxiQKYvYGAAw&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA]</ref> In the 1906–07 basketball season, Hoover, described as "one of the outstanding guards of the midlands", lead the Baker team to an undefeated season, under coach [[Phog Allen]].<ref>[https://books.google.ca/books?id=GesJAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Lamar+Hoover%22+baker&dq=%22Lamar+Hoover%22+baker&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NkNJUe7uO8mxiQKYvYGAAw&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAQ]</ref>


Hoover's final season at Fairmont began promisingly but ended with disappointing losses.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/officialnational07nation/officialnational07nation_djvu.txt The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association football guide] "The official rules book and record book of college football" (edited by [[Walter Camp]]) Can Sports Publishing Company, 1922</ref>
Hoover's final season at Fairmont began promisingly but ended with disappointing losses.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/officialnational07nation/officialnational07nation_djvu.txt The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association football guide] "The official rules book and record book of college football" (edited by [[Walter Camp]]) Can Sports Publishing Company, 1922</ref>

Hoover was born in [[Peabody, Kansas]] and was a veteran of [[World War I]]. Hoover died on December 18, 1944, at Veterans' Hospital in [[Muskogee, Oklahoma]].<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Chester Lamar Hoover |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64180126/the-kansas-city-times/ |newspaper=[[Kansas City Times]] |location=[[Kansas City, Missouri]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=December 19, 1944 |page=9 |access-date=November 28, 2020 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{Open access}} }}</ref>

==Head coaching record==
===Football===
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = [[Wichita State Shockers football|Fairmount Wheatshockers]]
| conf = [[Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference]]
| startyear = 1916
| endyear = 1917
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = [[1916 college football season|1916]]
| name = Fairmount
| overall = 7–3
| conference = 7–3
| confstanding = 5th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = [[1917 college football season|1917]]
| name = Fairmount
| overall = 3–3–2
| conference = 3–3–2
| confstanding = T–7th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = [[Wichita State Shockers football|Fairmount Wheatshockers]]
| conf = [[Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference]]
| startyear = 1921
| endyear = 1922
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = [[1921 college football season|1921]]
| name = Fairmount
| overall = 5–2–1
| conference = 4–2–1
| confstanding = 5th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = [[1922 college football season|1922]]
| name = Fairmount
| overall = 3–6–1
| conference = 3–5–1
| confstanding = 11th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Fairmount
| overall = 18–14–4
| confrecord = 17–13–4
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = [[Oklahoma City Chiefs football|Oklahoma City Goldbugs]]
| conf = [[Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference (1914–1928)|Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference]]
| startyear = 1923
| endyear = 1924
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = [[1923 college football season|1923]]
| name = Oklahoma City
| overall = 1–5–1
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = [[1924 college football season|1924]]
| name = Oklahoma City
| overall = 1–8
| conference = 0–7
| confstanding = 10th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Oklahoma City
| overall = 2–13–1
| confrecord =
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall = 20–27–5
| bowls = no
| poll = no
| polltype =
| legend = no
}}


==References==
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==External links==
* {{Find a Grave|74867464}}

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Latest revision as of 16:31, 11 November 2024

Lamar Hoover
Biographical details
Born(1887-02-27)February 27, 1887
Peabody, Kansas, U.S.
DiedDecember 18, 1944(1944-12-18) (aged 57)
Muskogee, Oklahoma, U.S.
Alma materBaker University
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1916–1917Fairmount
1921–1922Fairmount
1923–1924Oklahoma City
Basketball
1916–1918Fairmount
1921–1923Fairmount
1923–1925Oklahoma City
Baseball
1917–1919Fairmount
Head coaching record
Overall20–27–5 (football)
3–2 (baseball)

Chester Lamar Hoover (February 27, 1887 — December 18, 1944) was an American college football, college basketball, and college baseball coach. He served two stints as the head football at Fairmount College—now known as Wichita State University—in Wichita, Kansas, from 1916 and 1917 and again from 1921 to 1922 and as head football coach at Oklahoma City University from 1923 to 1924.[1] Prior to coaching at Fairmount, Hoover attended Baker University, where he was regarded as one of their top athletes.[2] In the 1906–07 basketball season, Hoover, described as "one of the outstanding guards of the midlands", lead the Baker team to an undefeated season, under coach Phog Allen.[3]

Hoover's final season at Fairmont began promisingly but ended with disappointing losses.[4]

Hoover was born in Peabody, Kansas and was a veteran of World War I. Hoover died on December 18, 1944, at Veterans' Hospital in Muskogee, Oklahoma.[5]

Head coaching record

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Football

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Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs
Fairmount Wheatshockers (Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference) (1916–1917)
1916 Fairmount 7–3 7–3 5th
1917 Fairmount 3–3–2 3–3–2 T–7th
Fairmount Wheatshockers (Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference) (1921–1922)
1921 Fairmount 5–2–1 4–2–1 5th
1922 Fairmount 3–6–1 3–5–1 11th
Fairmount: 18–14–4 17–13–4
Oklahoma City Goldbugs (Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference) (1923–1924)
1923 Oklahoma City 1–5–1
1924 Oklahoma City 1–8 0–7 10th
Oklahoma City: 2–13–1
Total: 20–27–5

References

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  1. ^ Wichita St. Coaching Records Archived September 29, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Ancestors of Jacob & Esther Garber and Their Descendants". 1970.
  3. ^ Weyand, Alexander M. (1960). "The Cavalcade of Basketball".
  4. ^ The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association football guide "The official rules book and record book of college football" (edited by Walter Camp) Can Sports Publishing Company, 1922
  5. ^ "Chester Lamar Hoover". Kansas City Times. Kansas City, Missouri. Associated Press. December 19, 1944. p. 9. Retrieved November 28, 2020 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
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