{{Short description|American football coach and educator}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox college coach | name = Robert Cire | birth_date = {{Birth date|1924|3|5}} | birth_place = Donaldsonville, Louisiana, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2009|4|10|1924|3|5|mf=yes}} | death_place = Cambridge, Maryland, U.S. | alma_mater = Delta State University (BA) Columbia University (MA) | coach_years1 = 1957–1959 | coach_team1 = Livingston State | admin_years1 = | admin_team1 = | overall_record = 2–22–1 | bowl_record = | tournament_record = | championships = | awards = | coaching_records = }} '''Robert A. Cire''' (March 5, 1924 – April 10, 2009) was a football head coach and educator. He was born in Donaldsonville, Louisiana and raised in Greenville, Mississippi before he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1943 to 1946 during World War II.<ref name="Obituary">{{cite web |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/newszapmd/obituary.aspx?n=robert-a-cire&pid=126171357 |title=Robert A. Cire |work=Maryland Obituaries |publisher=Legacy.com |accessdate=November 29, 2011}}</ref> After his service, he earned a degree from Delta State College (now Delta State University) and a master's degree in education from Columbia University in 1950.<ref name="Obituary"/>
After he graduated from college, he took a position at Livingston State College (now the University of West Alabama)<ref name="Obituary"/> He served as the head coach at Livingston State College from 1957 through the 1959 season and compiled an overall record of two wins, 22 losses and one tie during his tenure there (2–22–1).<ref name="CFDW">{{Cite web |last=DeLassus |first=David |title=Robert Cire Records by Year |publisher=College Football Data Warehouse |url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=5911 |accessdate=November 29, 2011 |archive-date=February 14, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100214041259/http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=5911 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
After coaching at Livingston State College, he became a coach at Hunter College for three years then moving to the City College of New York in 1965.<ref>[https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=bb_arch_reporter "Cire Selected As Net Coach"], ''The Reporter'', Manhattan, New York, volume LXVIII, number 12, January 11, 1965, page 8.</ref> By 1970 he had become an educator and tennis coach at Cambridge-South Dorchester High School and retired in 1986.<ref name="Obituary"/>
==Head coaching record== {{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subhead | name = Livingston State Tigers | conf = Alabama Intercollegiate Conference / Alabama Collegiate Conference | startyear = 1957 | endyear = 1959 }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1957 | name = Livingston State | overall = 1–7 | conference = | confstanding = | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1958 | name = Livingston State | overall = 1–6–1 | conference = | confstanding = | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Entry | championship = | year = 1959 | name = Livingston State | overall = 0–9 | conference = | confstanding = | bowlname = | bowloutcome = | ranking = no | ranking2 = no }} {{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal | name = Livingston State | overall = 2–22–1 | confrecord = }} {{CFB Yearly Record End | overall = 2–22–1 | bowls = no | poll = no | polltype = | legend = no }}
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