Clyde Biggers

Clyde Biggers
Biographical details
Sport(s)	Football, baseball
Born	(1925-03-06)March 6, 1925 Concord, North Carolina
Died	December 23, 1976(1976-12-23) (aged 51) Richmond, Virginia
Playing career
Football
c. 1947	Catawba
Baseball
c. 1948	Catawba
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
c. 1950	Fayetteville HS (NC)
1952	East Carolina (line)
1953–1958	Catawba
1959–1964	South Carolina (assistant)
1965–1971	Eastern Illinois
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1971–1974	Nebraska–Omaha
1974–1976	Richmond
Head coaching record
Overall	45–70–6

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]

Head coaching record

Year	Team	Overall	Conference
Catawba Indians (North State Conference) (1953–1958)
1953	Catawba	4–5–1
1954	Catawba	3–8
1955	Catawba	6–4
1956	Catawba	5–4–1
1957	Catawba	4–3	3–2
1958	Catawba	5–3–2	2–3–1
Catawba:		27–27–4
Eastern Illinois Panthers (Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) (1965–1968)
1965	Eastern Illinois	3–5	1–3
1966	Eastern Illinois	1–6–1	1–1–1
1967	Eastern Illinois	2–6–1	1–2
1968	Eastern Illinois	4–5	1–2
Eastern Illinois Panthers (NCAA College Division independent) (1969–1971)
1969	Eastern Illinois	2–7
1970	Eastern Illinois	2–8
1971	Eastern Illinois	4–6
Eastern Illinois:		18–43–2	4–8–1
Total:		45–70–6

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

Richmond Spiders athletic directors

Frank Dobson (1913–1918) Robert C. Marshall (1918–1919) Frank Dobson (1919–1933) Glenn Thistlethwaite (1934–1942) Malcolm Pitt (1942–1967) Frank Jones (1967–1974) Clyde Biggers (1974–1976) Chuck Boone (1977–2000) Jim Miller (2000–2012) Keith Gill (2012– )

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