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]