Coach Francis Hoover, 1955

This image shows Appalachian State Teachers College (1929-1967) coach Francis Hoover standing in the Men's Gymnasium, built 1934. Hoover graduated from ASTC in 1939, and began teaching in the Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation in 1945. He served as end coach for ten years, baseball coach for two years, tennis for one year, basketball for twelve years, and golf for twenty-two years. He was inducted into the Appalachian Athletic Hall of Fame in 1977, the same year he retired. He died in 2002.

Faculty

Athletics

Appalachian State University

Pritchett Collection, 2003.080, Basketball Squad January 1955, C14.1.4.2

University Archives, Appalachian State University

1955-01

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Photographs

English

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1950s

Appalachian State Teachers College (N.C.). Athletic Department. Mountaineers (basketball)

Hoover, Francis L., 1914-2002

Gymnasium (Men's) (1934)

Series 7 -- Athletics

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