Biographical details | |
---|---|
Born | Illinois, U.S. | February 9, 1913
Died | October 24, 1975 Greenville, North Carolina, U.S. | (aged 62)
Playing career | |
1931–1934 | Lenoir–Rhyne |
1941 | Charlotte Clippers |
Position(s) | End |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1938–1941 | Lenoir–Rhyne (assistant) |
1946–1961 | Lenoir–Rhyne |
1962–1969 | East Carolina |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
1946–1961 | Lenoir–Rhyne |
1963–1975 | East Carolina |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 171–64–7 |
Bowls | 5–1 |
Tournaments | 3–1 (NAIA playoffs) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
1 NAIA (1960) 9 North State / Carolinas Conference (1951–1952, 1955–1961) 1 SoCon (1966) | |
Awards | |
NAIA Coach of the Year (1959) | |
Clarence Stasavich (February 9, 1913 – October 24, 1975) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Lenoir–Rhyne College—now known as Lenoir–Rhyne University—in Hickory, North Carolina from 1946 to 1961 and at East Carolina College—renamed East Carolina University in 1967—from 1963 to 1969, compiling a career college football head coaching record of 171–64–7. He led Lenoir–Rhyne to the NAIA Football National Championship in 1960. Stasavich was also the athletic director at Lenoir–Rhyne from 1946 to 1961 and East Carolina from 1963 to 1975.