INDIANA, Pa. – Former IUP head football coach and athletic director Chuck Klausing passed away Thursday night at St. Andrew's Nursing Home of natural causes. He was 92 years old.
 
Klausing coached the football Indians from 1964-69, tallying an impressive 47-10 and .825 winning percentage in six seasons.
 
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His biggest highlight on the IUP sidelines came in 1968, guiding the Indians to the program's first postseason berth – the Boardwalk Bowl against Delaware in Atlantic City. He never lost more than three games in a single season at IUP, and posted a combined 25-3 record over his final three seasons at the helm.
 
Klausing transitioned into the role of athletic director at IUP. His tenure was distinguished not only by highly winning football and men's basketball teams but by the university reinstituting swimming and soccer programs, sponsoring a viable cross country team, and preparing for the launching of women's varsity sports.
 
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Klausing was inducted into the IUP Athletic Hall of Fame 1996 as part of its inaugural class.
 
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Following his tenure at IUP, he coached football at West Virginia (associated head coach), Carnegie Mellon (head coach), and the University of Pittsburgh (associated head coach). Klausing finished up his full-time coaching career as the coach of the Kiski School in Saltsburg.
 
The great Klausing was also inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1998 and the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League (WPIAL) Hall of Fame in 2008, among others.