Clarence Stasavich
Stasavich pictured in The Buccaneer 1963, East Carolina yearbook
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
February 9, 1913 Illinois |
| Died | October 24, 1975 (aged 62) Greenville, North Carolina |
| Playing career | |
| 1931–1934 | Lenoir–Rhyne |
| Position(s) | End |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1946–1961 | Lenoir–Rhyne |
| 1962–1969 | East Carolina |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 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 National (1960) 7 North State / Carolinas Conference (1951–1952, 1955–1956, 1958–1961) 1 SoCon (1966) |
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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 University from 1946 to 1961 and at East Carolina College—renamed East Carolina University in 1967—from 1963 to 1969, compiling a career college football of 171–64–7. He led Lenoir–Rhyne to the NAIA Football National Championship in 1960. Stasavich was also the athletic director at East Carolina from 1963 to 1975.
Stasavich was the head football coach at East Carolina from 1962 to 1969 and the athletic director from 1963 to 1975. During those eight years Stasavich posted a 50–27–1 record. In 1963 East Carolina was 9–1 and record the program's first bowl game victory, against North Eastern in the Eastern Bowl. In 1964, Stasavich's team again posted a 9–1 record and beat UMass in the Tangerine Bowl, 14–13. The 1965 football season was a repeat of 1964's record and bowl appearance, expect the Pirates won against Maine, 31–0, in the Tangerine Bowl. Also in 1965, Stasavich helped bring East Carolina into the Southern Conference. In 1969, Stasavich was the third-winningest active coach after Bear Bryant of Alabama and Johnny Vaught of Ole Miss.
Stasavich died October 24, 1975, a day before East Carolina beat North Carolina for the first time.
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