Francis Lentz Hoover (November 15, 1914 – March 19, 2002) was an American college sports coach and administrator. He coached
American football,
basketball,
baseball, and
tennis at Appalachian State Teachers College—now known as
Appalachian State University
Appalachian State University (; Appalachian, App State, App, or ASU) is a public university in Boone, North Carolina. It was founded as a teachers college in 1899 by brothers B. B. and D. D. Dougherty and the latter's wife, Lillie Shull Dough ...
—located in
Boone, North Carolina
Boone is a town in and the county seat of Watauga County, North Carolina, United States. Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, Boone is the home of Appalachian State University and the headquarters for the disaster and ...
. Hoover was the eighth head football coach, serving for one season in 1945, and the seventh basketball coach, serving for 11 seasons between 1945 and 1957, at Appalachian State.
He led the
Appalachian State Mountaineers men's basketball to two
North State Conference
Conference Carolinas, formerly known as the Carolinas-Virginia Athletic Conference (CVAC) or the Carolinas Conference, is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) primarily at the Divis ...
championships. Hoover was the president of the
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) for the 1960–61 academic year.
Head coaching record
Football
Basketball
References
1914 births
2002 deaths
American sports executives and administrators
Appalachian State Mountaineers baseball coaches
Appalachian State Mountaineers football coaches
Appalachian State Mountaineers men's basketball coaches
Appalachian State University alumni
Appalachian State University faculty
Basketball coaches from North Carolina
College golf coaches in the United States
College tennis coaches in the United States
Indiana University alumni
People from Statesville, North Carolina
University of North Carolina alumni
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