Chester Lamar Hoover (February 27, 1887 — December 18, 1944) was an
American football
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,
basketball
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, and
baseball
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coach. He served two stints as the head football at Fairmount College—now known as
Wichita State University
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—in
Wichita, Kansas
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, from 1916 and 1917 and again from 1921 to 1922 and as head football coach at
Oklahoma City University
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from 1923 to 1924. Prior to coaching at Fairmount, Hoover attended
Baker University
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, where he was regarded as one of their top athletes. In the 1906–07 basketball season, Hoover, described as "one of the outstanding guards of the midlands", lead the Baker team to an undefeated season, under coach
Phog Allen
Forrest Clare "Phog" Allen (November 18, 1885 – September 16, 1974) was an American basketball coach. Known as the "Father of Basketball Coaching,"[Peabody, Kansas
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and was a veteran of
World War I
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. Hoover died on December 18, 1944, at Veterans' Hospital in
Muskogee, Oklahoma
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.
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