Dates

• Majority of material found within 1800 - 2018

Extent

4 boxes Linear Feet (This collection contains materials donated by Patricia Klausing Simmons (IUP Class of 1972) and her husband William Simmons including Civil War memorabilia and scrapbooks related to the history of Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). Patricia Klausing Simmons is the daughter of Charles and Joanne Wit Klausing, and she created several scrapbooks that documented her father’s football coaching career from the 1960s to the 1990s. Charles (Chuck) L. Klausing (April 19, 1925-February 15, 2018) was born in Wilmerding, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Wilmerding High School and joined the U.S. Marines V-12 program at Penn State University. He was a center on the Penn State football squad in 1943-1944. He served with the U. S. Marine Corps as a second lieutenant in the Pacific during World War Two. In 1946-1947, Klausing played center for Slippery Rock State Teachers College, and he was captain the second year before graduating from Slippery Rock. In 1948, he married Joann Catherine Wit Klausing (1922-2011) and they had four children. Klausing was football head coach at Indiana State College (later Indiana University of Pennsylvania) for six seasons from 1964 to 1969. His record was 47-10, and his 1968 team was in a post season game, losing to the University of Delaware 31-24 in the Boardwalk Bowl, played in Convention Hall in Atlantic City on December 14, 1968. This was the first indoor game broadcast on television. For ten years, 1976-1985, Klausing was the head coach at Carnegie Mellon University. His teams won six conference championships and made the NCAA Division III playoffs four times. The 1979 team won the Lambert Trophy, given to the best small college team in the East. His record at Carnegie Mellon was 77-15-2. In these combined 16 years as a college head coach, Klausing was 124-25-2, a percentage of .828, which lists him as the 21st top all time winning coach. Klausing was head coach at the high school level in Pennsylvania for 19 years, including stints at: Pitcairn, 1948-1953; Braddock, 1954-1959; and Kiski, 1987-1993. His Braddock teams had a 6-year record of 53-0-1 and were featured in Sports Illustrated. He was assistant coach at: Rutgers, 1960; West Point, 1961-1963; West Virginia, 1970-1975 (Assistant Head Football Coach with Bobby Bowden); and Pittsburgh, 1986. In 1964, Klausing started summertime learning camps for kids. Each camp lasts three days. Total enrollment at five camps each summer averages 1,000 kids. Camps are held on college campuses. Klausing has coached and advised for the NFL in the European Football League. He has been named to nine Halls of Fame and has written several books, including Never Lost a Game and Time Just Ran Out. In 1998, Klausing was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Indiana. For more information about the Klausing and Simmons family genealogy, visit the collection finding aid.)

Language of Materials

English