| Claude Rothgeb | |
| Birth Date: | 1 January 1880 |
| Birth Place: | Milford, Illinois, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Player Sport1: | Football |
| Player Years2: | 1900 |
| Player Team2: | Illinois |
| Player Years3: | 1902–1904 |
| Player Team3: | Illinois |
| Player Sport4: | Baseball |
| Player Years5: | 1904–1905 |
| Player Team5: | Illinois |
| Player Years6: | 1905 |
| Player Team6: | Washington Senators |
| Player Positions: | End (football) Right fielder (baseball) |
| Coach Sport1: | Football |
| Coach Years2: | 1906–1909 |
| Coach Team2: | Colorado Agricultural |
| Coach Years3: | 1910–1918 |
| Coach Team3: | Colorado College |
| Coach Years4: | 1922 |
| Coach Team4: | Illinois (ends) |
| Coach Years5: | 1925 |
| Coach Team5: | Texas A&M (assistant) |
| Coach Years6: | 1927 |
| Coach Team6: | Rice (line) |
| Coach Years7: | 1928 |
| Coach Team7: | Rice |
| Coach Sport8: | Basketball |
| Coach Years9: | 1905–1908 |
| Coach Team9: | Colorado Agricultural |
| Coach Years10: | 1909–1910 |
| Coach Team10: | Colorado Agricultural |
| Coach Years11: | 1915–1919 |
| Coach Team11: | Colorado College |
| Coach Sport12: | Baseball |
| Coach Years13: | 1908–1909 |
| Coach Team13: | Colorado Agricultural |
| Coach Years14: | 1925–1927 |
| Coach Team14: | Texas A&M |
| Admin Years1: | 1906–1910 |
| Admin Team1: | Colorado Agricultural |
| Overall Record: | 46–36–3 (football) 34–12 (basketball) 38–23–2 (baseball) |
| Championships: | Football RMC (1910) |
| Awards: | Football Third-team All-American (1904) |
Claude James Rothgeb (January 1, 1880 – July 5, 1944) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the Agricultural College of Colorado, now Colorado State University, from 1906 to 1909, at Colorado College from 1910 to 1918, and at Rice University in 1928, compiling a career college football record of 47–36–3. Rothgeb played football and basketball and ran track at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, from which he graduated in 1905. He played for Major League Baseball's Washington Senators in 1905.
Rothgeb died at Voss' Birchwood Lodge in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin.[1]