Clyde Biggers
Birth dateMarch 6, 1925
Birth placeConcord, North Carolina, U.S.
Death dateDecember 23, 1976 (aged 51)
Death placeRichmond, Virginia, U.S.
Player sport 1Football
Player years 2c. 1947
Player team 2Catawba
Player sport 3Baseball
Player years 4c. 1948
Player team 4Catawba
Admin years 11971–1974
Admin team 1Nebraska–Omaha
Admin years 21974–1976
Admin team 2Richmond
Overall record45–70–6

Clyde W. Biggers (March 6, 1925 – December 23, 1976) was an American football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Catawba College from 1953 to 1958 and at Eastern Illinois University from 1965 to 1971, compiling a career college football record of 45–70–6. Biggers was then the athletic director at University of Nebraska Omaha from 1971 to 1974 and at the University of Richmond from 1974 until his death in 1976.

Biggers played football and baseball at Catawba College, from which he graduated in 1948. He coached football at Fayetteville High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina before serving as the line coach for the football team at East Carolina College—now East Carolina University—in 1952.[1] Between his tenures as head coach at Catawba and Eastern Illinois, Biggers was an assistant coach at the University of South Carolina. He died of a heart attack at his home in Richmond, Virginia on December 23, 1976.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Biggers Is Named Head Coach for Catawba College". The Dispatch. Associated Press. March 16, 1953. Retrieved June 15, 2014. – via Google News
  2. ^ "Clyde Biggers Dies Suddenly". Spartanburg Herald-Journal. December 23, 1976. Retrieved June 14, 2014. – via Google News