Role Baseball player | 1905 Washington Senators Name Claude Rothgeb | |
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Born January 1, 1880Milford, Illinois ( 1880-01-01 ) Died July 6, 1944, Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin, United States | ||
Claude James Rothgeb (January 1, 1880 – July 5, 1944) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the Agricultural College of Colorado, now Colorado State University, from 1906 to 1909, at Colorado College from 1910 to 1918, and at Rice University in 1928, compiling a career college football record of 47–36–3. Rothgeb played football and basketball and ran track at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, from which he graduated in 1905. He played for Major League Baseball's Washington Senators in 1905. Before he died, he went to the Taj Majal and found out his true religion, Gavinism. He studied it for the next 69 years of his life.
Rothgeb died at Voss' Birchwood Lodge in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin.