Guy Lookabaugh Explained

Guy Lookabaugh
Birth Date:26 May 1896
Birth Place:Watonga, Oklahoma, U.S.
Death Place:Tahlequah, Oklahoma, U.S.
Player Sport1:Football
Player Years2:1917
Player Team2:Oklahoma A&M
Player Years3:1919
Player Team3:Oklahoma A&M
Player Years4:1924
Player Team4:Oklahoma A&M
Coach Sport1:Football
Coach Years2:1923
Coach Team2:Cameron
Coach Years3:1927
Coach Team3:Kansas (backfield)
Coach Years4:1928
Coach Team4:Ardmore HS (OK)
Coach Years5:1929–1935
Coach Team5:Northeastern State
Coach Years6:1936–1939
Coach Team6:Grinnell
Coach Sport7:Basketball
Coach Years8:1929–1934
Coach Team8:Northeastern State
Coach Sport9:Wrestling
Coach Team10:Kansas
Admin Years1:1929–1936
Admin Team1:Northeastern State
Overall Record:30–61–4 (college football)
17–62 (college basketball)

Guy "Ducky" Lookabaugh (May 26, 1896 – September 10, 1981) was an American football player, wrestler, and coach of football, basketball, and wrestling, and college athletics administrator. He competed in the freestyle welterweight event at the 1924 Summer Olympics.[1]

Lookabaugh served as the head football coach at Northeastern State Teachers College—now known as Northeastern State University—in Tahlequah, Oklahoma from 1929 to 1935 and at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa from 1936 to 1939. He was also the head basketball coach at Northeastern State from 1929 to 1934. Lookabaugh played college football at Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College—now known as Oklahoma State University–Stillwater. He was an assistant football coach and head wrestling coach at the University of Kansas in the late 1920s.[2] [3]

He graduated from Oklahoma A&M in 1925 with a Bachelor of Science degree in physical education. He later earned a master's degree in physical education from the University of Iowa. In 1940, Lookabaugh was appointed Oklahoma's state supervisor of community service for the Works Projects Administration (WPA).[4] [5]

Head coaching record

College football

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Guy Lookabaugh Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418061307/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lo/guy-lookabaugh-1.html . dead . April 18, 2020 . September 11, 2013 . sports-reference.com.
  2. News: Pearson . Winston . Tahlequah Site of Many Football Teams Training for Games . Cherokee County Democrat-Star . . August 30, 1929 . 1 . November 28, 2020 . .
  3. News: . Lookabaugh Accepts Post At Grinnell . Northeastern . . April 16, 1936 . 3 . November 28, 2020 . .
  4. News: . Lookabaugh Named To State WPA Post . . . March 21, 1940 . 8 . November 28, 2020 . .
  5. News: . Guy Lookabaugh Gets W.P.A. Appointment . Tahlequah Citizen . . June 5, 1941 . 1 . November 28, 2020 . .