{{Short description|American football player, coach, and administrator}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox college coach | name = Keith Rasmussen | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth based on age as of date|56|1993|9|2}}<ref>''Salina Journal'', September 2, 1993, Salina, Kansas</ref> | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | alma_mater = | player_years1 = 1954–1957 | player_team1 = Bethany (KS) | player_positions = Center | coach_years1 = 1958–1959 | coach_team1 = Geneseo HS (KS) | coach_years2 = 1960–1963 | coach_team2 = Colby HS (KS) | coach_years3 = 1965–1973 | coach_team3 = Bethany (KS) | admin_years1 = 1966–1974 | admin_team1 = Bethany (KS) | overall_record = 42–39–3 (college football) | bowl_record = 1–1 | tournament_record = | championships = 1 KCAC (1973) | awards = | coaching_records = }} '''E. Keith Rasmussen'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofinterco00rasm|title = History of intercollegiate athletics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas|year = 1966|publisher = Kansas State University}}</ref> is an American former football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas from 1965 to 1973, compiling a record of 42–39–3.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nwkansas.com/cfpwebpages/pdf%20pages-all/cfp%20pages-pdfs%202010/Reunion%202010/CHS%20Reunion%205.pdf|newspaper=Colby Free Press|title=Basketball player recalls top-ranked year started slow|accessdate=March 6, 2013|date=June 14, 2012|first=Vera|last=Sloan}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=DeLassus |first=David |title=Bethany College Records By Year (incomplete data) |publisher=College Football Data Warehouse |url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/incomplete_data/year_by_year_current.php?teamid=320 |accessdate=March 5, 2013 |archive-date=May 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150515190115/http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/incomplete_data/year_by_year_current.php?teamid=320 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Rasmussen was also the athletic director at Bethany from 1966 to 1974.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Bethany Makes Change |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61953957/the-kansas-city-star/ |newspaper=The Kansas City Star |location=Kansas City, Missouri |agency=Associated Press |date=September 8, 1966 |page=14 |access-date=October 27, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Rasmussen resigns as Bethany grid coach |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61954770/the-salina-journal/ |newspaper=The Salina Journal |location=Salina, Kansas |date=April 3, 1974 |page=18 |access-date=October 27, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}</ref>
==Head coaching record== ===College football=== {{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subhead | name = Bethany Swedes | conf = Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference | startyear = 1965 | endyear = 1963 }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1965 | name = Bethany | overall = 7–2 | conference = 7–2 | confstanding = 2nd | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1966 | name = Bethany | overall = 4–5 | conference = 4–5 | confstanding = 6th | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1967 | name = Bethany | overall = 2–7 | conference = 2–7 | confstanding = 8th | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1968 | name = Bethany | overall = 3–5–1 | conference = 3–5–1 | confstanding = 6th | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1969 | name = Bethany | overall = 4–5 | conference = 2–3 | confstanding = T–3rd <small>(North)</small> | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1970 | name = Bethany | overall = 3–5–1 | conference = 2–3 | confstanding = 4th <small>(North)</small> | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1971 | name = Bethany | overall = 8–2 | conference = 7–1 | confstanding = 2nd | bowlname = Mineral Water | bowloutcome = W | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1972 | name = Bethany | overall = 4–4–1 | conference = 4–3–1 | confstanding = 4th | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = conference | year = 1973 | name = Bethany | overall = 7–4 | conference = 7–1 | confstanding = T–1st | bowlname = Boot Hill | bowloutcome = L | bcsbowl = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = Bethany | overall = 42–39–3 | confrecord = 38–30–2 }} {{CFB Yearly Record End | overall = 42–39–3 | bowls = no | poll = no | polltype = }}
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