Glenn Joseph "Jake" Lawlor (July 27, 1907 – July 11, 1980) was an

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player, coach of football,

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, and

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and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the

University of Nevada, Reno The University of Nevada, Reno (Nevada, the University of Nevada, or UNR) is a public land-grant research university in Reno, Nevada. It is the state's flagship public university and primary land grant institution. It was founded on October 12, ...

from 1952 to 1954, compiling a record of 6–10. Lawlor was also the head basketball coach at Nevada in 1942–43 and again from 1945 to 1959, amassing a record of 204–156. He was Nevada's head baseball coach from 1957 to 1960 and the school's

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from 1951 to 1969. Lawlor died on July 11, 1980, at the age of 72, following treatment at St. Mary's Hospital in Reno for cancer. Opened in 1983,

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on the University of Nevada, Reno campus, is named for him.

Head coaching record

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