Karl Schlademan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Karl Schlademan

American sports coach

Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1890

Place of Birth: Indiana, United States

Date of Death: 22-Dec-1980

Profession: basketball coach, baseball player, athletics competitor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Karl L.
Schlademan (February 11, 1890 – December 22, 1980) was an American collegiate track & field and cross country coach for nearly forty years.
He coached at the University of Kansas (1919–26), Washington State College (1926–40), and Michigan State College (1940–58). At Kansas, Schlademan was instrumental in the founding of the Kansas Relays and was the Jayhawks' fourth head basketball coach in an interim capacity for the first game of the 1919–20 season for Phog Allen.
He spent eighteen years at Michigan State, initially as the track and field coach and then later adding cross country to his duties; some consider him the Spartans' greatest coach. Schlademan is an inductee into the Drake Relay Hall of Fame, Michigan State University's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1995, U.S.
Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Hall of Fame, and the Washington State University Hall of Fame.