Richard E. Towers (born c. 1930) is a former American football player and coach and college athletics administrator. He was the 12th head football coach at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, serving for seven seasons, from 1967 to 1973, and compiling a record of 29–37–2. Towers was the athletic director at

Kansas State University Kansas State University (KSU, Kansas State, or K-State) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas, United States. It was opened as the state's land-grant college in 1863 and was the first public instit ...

from 1981 to 1985. Iowa State associate athletic director 1986-1989. A native of Olathe, Kansas, Towers attended Kansas State University, where he played football as a halfback and ran

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, competing in the half-mile and

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