| Raymond A. Curfman | |||||||||
| Birth Date: | 16 June 1915 | ||||||||
| Death Place: | Tucson, Arizona, U.S. | ||||||||
| Player Years1: | 1936–1937 | ||||||||
| Player Team1: | Texas Tech | ||||||||
| Player Positions: | End, quarterback | ||||||||
| Coach Years1: | 1945 | ||||||||
| Coach Team1: | Barksdale Field | ||||||||
| Coach Years2: | 1946–1947 | ||||||||
| Coach Team2: | New Mexico A&M | ||||||||
| Coach Years3: | 1949–1950 | ||||||||
| Coach Team3: | Idaho (ends) | ||||||||
| Coach Years4: | 1951–1953 | ||||||||
| Coach Team4: | Idaho | ||||||||
| Admin Years1: | 1947–1949 | ||||||||
| Admin Team1: | New Mexico A&M | ||||||||
| Overall Record: | 19–37–1 | ||||||||
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Raymond A. "Babe" Curfman (June 16, 1915 – April 5, 1993) was an American football player and coach. He was the head coach at the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in Las Cruces (now New Mexico State University), from 1946 to 1947 and at the University of Idaho in Moscow from 1951 to 1953, compiling a career college football record .
After a brief stay as a player with the Brooklyn Dodgers of the National Football League (NFL) in 1938, Curfman coached at the high school level in Texas and New Mexico, at Tulia, Santa Rosa, and Las Cruces. His 1942 Las Cruces basketball team advanced to the state finals. Curfman served as a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps in World War II.[1]
Curfman made headlines during the 1953 season as his overmatched Vandals struggled in conference play in the PCC.[5] Following his resignation as Idaho head coach in December,[6] [7] [8] he was hired as the business manager for the Spokane Indians minor league baseball team in January 1954.[9]
He later coached high school football back in Texas, at Pampa (1958–1961) and Pecos (1962–1964).[10]
Curfman died at age 77 in 1993 in Tucson, Arizona; he and his wife are buried at the East Lawn Palms Cemetery in Tucson.