Lamar Hoover

Chester Lamar Hoover (February 27, 1887 — December 18, 1944) was an American football, basketball, and 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]

Lamar Hoover

Biographical details
Born	(1887-02-27)February 27, 1887 Peabody, Kansas, U.S.
Died	December 18, 1944(1944-12-18) (aged 57) Muskogee, Oklahoma, U.S.
Alma mater	Baker University
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1916–1917	Fairmount
1921–1922	Fairmount
1923–1924	Oklahoma City
Basketball
1916–1918	Fairmount
1921–1923	Fairmount
1923–1925	Oklahoma City
Baseball
1917–1919	Fairmount
Head coaching record
Overall	20–27–5 (football) 3–2 (baseball)

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

Football

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

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 .

External links

• Lamar Hoover at Find a Grave