# Keith Rasmussen

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{{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)](/source/Bethany_Terrible_Swedes_football)
| player_positions = [Center](/source/Center_(gridiron_football))
| coach_years1 = 1958–1959
| coach_team1 = Geneseo HS (KS)
| coach_years2 = 1960–1963
| coach_team2 = [Colby HS (KS)](/source/Colby_High_School_(Kansas))
| coach_years3 = 1965–1973
| coach_team3 = [Bethany (KS)](/source/Bethany_Terrible_Swedes_football)
| admin_years1 = 1966–1974
| admin_team1 = [Bethany (KS)](/source/Bethany_Swedes)
| overall_record = 42–39–3 (college football)
| bowl_record = 1–1
| tournament_record = 
| championships = 1 [KCAC](/source/Kansas_Collegiate_Athletic_Conference) (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](/source/American_football) coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at [Bethany College](/source/Bethany_College_(Kansas)) in [Lindsborg, Kansas](/source/Lindsborg%2C_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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/The_Kansas_City_Star) |location=[Kansas City, Missouri](/source/Kansas_City%2C_Missouri) |agency=[Associated Press](/source/Associated_Press) |date=September 8, 1966 |page=14 |access-date=October 27, 2020 |via=[Newspapers.com](/source/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](/source/The_Salina_Journal) |location=[Salina, Kansas](/source/Salina%2C_Kansas) |date=April 3, 1974 |page=18 |access-date=October 27, 2020 |via=[Newspapers.com](/source/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](/source/Bethany_Swedes_football)
 | conf      = [Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference](/source/Kansas_Collegiate_Athletic_Conference)
 | startyear = 1965
 | endyear   = 1963
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [1965](/source/1965_NAIA_football_season)
 | name         = Bethany
 | overall      = 7–2
 | conference   = 7–2
 | confstanding = 2nd
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [1966](/source/1966_NAIA_football_season)
 | name         = Bethany
 | overall      = 4–5
 | conference   = 4–5
 | confstanding = 6th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [1967](/source/1967_NAIA_football_season)
 | name         = Bethany
 | overall      = 2–7
 | conference   = 2–7
 | confstanding = 8th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [1968](/source/1968_NAIA_football_season)
 | 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](/source/1969_NAIA_football_season)
 | 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](/source/1970_NAIA_Division_II_football_season)
 | 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](/source/1971_NAIA_Division_II_football_season)
 | name         = Bethany
 | overall      = 8–2
 | conference   = 7–1
 | confstanding = 2nd
 | bowlname     = [Mineral Water](/source/Mineral_Water_Bowl)
 | bowloutcome  = W
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [1972](/source/1972_NAIA_Division_II_football_season)
 | 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](/source/1973_NAIA_Division_II_football_season)
 | name         = Bethany
 | overall      = 7–4
 | conference   = 7–1
 | confstanding = T–1st
 | bowlname     = [Boot Hill](/source/Boot_Hill_Bowl)
 | 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 = 
}}

==References==
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