L. F. "Pop" Klein

L. F. "Pop" Klein
Sport(s) Football, basketball
Biographical details
Alma mater Cotner
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1923–1934 Crete HS (NE)
1935–1942 Nebraska–Kearney
1945–1958 Nebraska (assistant)
Basketball
1923–1935 Crete HS (NE)
1935–1937 Nebraska–Kearney
1945–1946 Nebraska
Head coaching record
Overall 42–21–1 (college football)
22–28 (college basketball)
89–19 (high school football)
200–54 (high school basketball)

Lloyd Frederick "Pop" Klein was a coach of football and basketball at the high school and collegiate levels.

He began his career as a football and basketball at Crete High School where he accumulated an 89–19 record in football and 200–54 in basketball.[1] He won a state basketball championship at Crete in 1928.[2]

Klein then moved on to become the head football coach at the University of Nebraska–Kearney where led them to a 42–21–1 in eight seasons. Klein was also the Nebraska–Kearney head men's basketball coach for two seasons (1935–1937) where he led the teams to a 15–15 record.[3] After that, he became an assistant football coach at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln for 14 seasons.[4] During his first year in Lincoln, he stepped in to be the men's basketball coach for one year due to the head coach being ill. [5]

References

  1. ↑ Ellis, Mark (2007). A Century of Sports at the University of Nebraska at Kearney (1st ed.). ISBN 9780738550640. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  2. ↑ "L.F. "Pop" Klein". Beatrice Public Schools. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  3. ↑ "MBB Records - Year by Year record" (PDF). April 10, 2013. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Assistant Football Coaches at Nebraska Since 1926". huskers.com. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  5. ↑ "NEBRASKA COACHING LEDGER" (pdf). huskers.com. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
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