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Earl Carlton “Irish” Krieger was the third head football coach at Bowling Green State Normal School—now Bowling Green State University—serving for one season in 1921 and compiling a record of 3–1–1. Krieger was also the head basketball coach at Bowling Green State Normal during the 1921–22 season, tallying a mark of 4–10, and the school's head baseball coach in the spring of 1922, notching a record of 7–1. Krieger played college football at Ohio University, from which he graduated in 1920.

In addition to coaching at Bowling Green, he was also a member of the football coaching staffs at his alma mater and at the University of Tennessee. For 25 years until his retirement in 1953, Krieger worked as a football and basketball official for the Big Ten Conference. He was also a member of the NCAA’s football rules committee. Krieger died at the age of 64 on Nov. 10, 1960, at his home in Columbus, Ohio.