Hall of Fame
Position: Coach
Years: Indiana [PA] (1964-69), Carnegie Mellon [PA] (1976-85)
Place of Birth: Wilmerding, PA
Date of Birth: April 19, 1925
Place of Death: Indiana, PA
Date of Death: Feb. 15, 2018
Inducted into the Hall in 1998, he described the honor as “one of the greatest honors a coach can receive.”
Chuck Klausing was head coach for six years, 1964 to 1969, at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, located at Indiana, PA, accumulating a 47-10 record. His 1968 team lost in a post season game to Delaware 31-24 in the Boardwalk Bowl, played in Convention Hall in Atlantic City.
From 1976 to 1985, he headed the program at Carnegie Mellon, winning six conference championships and appearing in the NCAA Division III playoffs four times. His 1979 team won the Lambert Trophy, given to the best small college team in the East. His finished his Carnegie Mellon tenure with a 77-15-2 record, giving him an all-time head coaching record of 124-25-2 record with an 82.8 percentage.
He coached at the high school and prep school level in Pennsylvania for 19 years, including stints at Pitcairn 1948-53, Braddock 1954-59, and Kiski Prep 1987-93. His Braddock teams had a 6-year record of 53-0-1 and were featured in Sports Illustrated. For 11 years he was an assistant coach at the college level -- Rutgers 1960, Army 1961-63, West Virginia 1970-75 under Hall of Fame coach Bobby Bowden, and Pittsburgh 1986.
Chuck Klausing was born April 19, 1925, in Wilmerding, PA. He graduated at Wilmerding High School and joined the Marine V-12 program at Penn State. He was a center on the Penn State football squad in 1943-44. He served with the Marines as a second lieutenant in the Pacific theater. He played center for Slippery Rock 1946-47 and was captain the second year.
In 1964, he started summertime learning camps for kids. Each camp lasted three days, and enrollment at five camps each summer averaged 1,000 kids. Klausing was named to eight Halls of Fame and wrote a book, "Never Lost a Game; Time Just Ran Out." In 1997 he served as advisory coach at the South Carolina School for the Deaf.
Klausing passed away Feb. 15, 2018. At 92, he was the oldest living College Football Hall of Fame coach at the time.
