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{{Short description|American athlete and coach (1880–1944)}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Claude Rothgeb
| image = Claude Rothgeb.jpg
| alt = 
| caption = Rothgeb pictured in ''The Campanile 1929'', Rice yearbook
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1880|1|1}}
| birth_place = [[Milford, Illinois]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1944|7|5|1880|1|1}}
| death_place = [[Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin]], U.S.
| alma_mater = 
| player_sport1 = Football
| player_years2 = 1900
| player_team2 = [[Illinois Fighting Illini football|Illinois]]
| player_years3 = 1902–1904
| player_team3 = Illinois
| player_sport4 = Baseball
| player_years5 = 1904–1905
| player_team5 = [[Illinois Fighting Illini baseball|Illinois]]
| player_years6 = 1905
| player_team6 = [[Washington Senators (1901–60)|Washington Senators]]
| player_positions = [[End (gridiron football)|End]] (football)<br>[[Right fielder]] (baseball)
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1906–1909
| coach_team2 = [[Colorado State Rams football|Colorado Agricultural]]
| coach_years3 = 1910–1918
| coach_team3 = [[Colorado College Tigers football|Colorado College]]
| coach_years4 = 1922
| coach_team4 = [[Illinois Fighting Illini football|Illinois]] (ends)
| coach_years5 = 1925
| coach_team5 = [[Texas A&M Aggies football|Texas A&M]] (assistant)
| coach_years6 = 1927
| coach_team6 = [[Rice Owls football|Rice]] (line)
| coach_years7 = 1928
| coach_team7 = Rice
| coach_sport8 = Basketball
| coach_years9 = 1905–1908
| coach_team9 = [[Colorado State Rams men's basketball|Colorado Agricultural]]
| coach_years10 = 1909–1910
| coach_team10 = Colorado Agricultural
| coach_years11 = 1915–1919
| coach_team11 = [[Colorado College Tigers|Colorado College]]
| coach_sport12 = Baseball
| coach_years13 = 1908–1909
| coach_team13 = [[Colorado State Rams baseball|Colorado Agricultural]]
| coach_years14 = 1925–1927
| coach_team14 = [[Texas A&M Aggies baseball|Texas A&M]]
| admin_years1 = 1906–1910
| admin_team1 = [[Colorado State Rams|Colorado Agricultural]]
| overall_record = 46–36–3 (football)<br>34–12 (basketball)<br>38–23–2 (baseball)
| bowl_record = 
| tournament_record = 
| championships = Football<br>[[Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference|RMC]] (1910)
| awards = Football<br>
* Third-team [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] ([[1904 College Football All-America Team|1904]])
* First-team [[List of All-Big Ten Conference football teams|All-Western]] ([[1904 All-Western college football team|1904]])
| coaching_records = 
}}
'''Claude James Rothgeb''' (January 1, 1880 – July 5, 1944) was an [[American football]], [[basketball]], and [[baseball]] player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the Agricultural College of Colorado, now [[Colorado State University]], from 1906 to 1909, at [[Colorado College]] from 1910 to 1918, and at [[Rice University]] in 1928, compiling a career [[college football]] record of 47–36–3. Rothgeb played football and basketball and ran [[track and field|track]] at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]], from which he graduated in 1905. He played for [[Major League Baseball]]'s [[History of the Washington Senators|Washington Senators]] in 1905.

Rothgeb died at Voss' Birchwood Lodge in [[Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin]].<ref>[http://idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=d&d=DIL19440707.2.16 7 July 1944 Daily Illini]</ref>

==Head coaching record==
===Football===
{{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Colorado State Rams football|Colorado Agricultural Aggies]]
 | conf      = [[Colorado Football Association]]
 | startyear = 1906
 | endyear   = 1908
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1906 college football season|1906]]
 | name         = [[1906 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team|Colorado Agricultural]]
 | overall      = 1–2–1
 | conference   = 1–2–1
 | confstanding = T–4th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1907 college football season|1907]]
 | name         = [[1907 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team|Colorado Agricultural]]
 | overall      = 0–4
 | conference   = 0–4
 | confstanding = 5th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1908 college football season|1908]]
 | name         = [[1908 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team|Colorado Agricultural]]
 | overall      = 1–3
 | conference   = 0–2
 | confstanding = 4th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Colorado State Rams football|Colorado Agricultural Aggies]]
 | conf      = [[Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference|Colorado Faculty Athletic Conference]]
 | startyear = 1909
 | endyear   = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1909 college football season|1909]]
 | name         = [[1909 Colorado Agricultural Aggies football team|Colorado Agricultural]]
 | overall      = 1–2
 | conference   = 0–2
 | confstanding = T–3rd
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Colorado Agricultural
 | overall    = 3–11–1
 | confrecord = 1–10–1
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Colorado College Tigers football|Colorado College Tigers]]
 | conf      = [[Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference|Rocky Mountain Conference]]
 | startyear = 1910
 | endyear   = 1918
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = conference
 | year         = [[1910 college football season|1910]]
 | name         = [[1910 Colorado College Tigers football team|Colorado College]]
 | overall      = 7–0
 | conference   = 4–0
 | confstanding = 1st
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1911 college football season|1911]]
 | name         = Colorado College
 | overall      = 4–3
 | conference   = 3–2
 | confstanding = 4th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1912 college football season|1912]]
 | name         = Colorado College
 | overall      = 5–4
 | conference   = 2–4
 | confstanding = 5th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1913 college football season|1913]]
 | name         = Colorado College
 | overall      = 5–2–1
 | conference   = 2–2–1
 | confstanding = T–3rd
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1914 college football season|1914]]
 | name         = Colorado College
 | overall      = 4–1–1
 | conference   = 3–1–1
 | confstanding = 3rd
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1915 college football season|1915]]
 | name         = Colorado College
 | overall      = 6–2
 | conference   = 3–2
 | confstanding = 4th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1916 college football season|1916]]
 | name         = Colorado College
 | overall      = 6–1
 | conference   = 4–1
 | confstanding = 2nd
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1917 college football season|1917]]
 | name         = Colorado College
 | overall      = 3–3
 | conference   = 2–3
 | confstanding = T–5th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1918 college football season|1918]]
 | name         = Colorado College
 | overall      = 1–2
 | conference   = 1–2
 | confstanding = T–3rd
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Colorado College
 | overall    = 41–18–2
 | confrecord = 24–17–2
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Rice Owls football|Rice Owls]]
 | conf      = [[Southwest Conference]]
 | startyear = 1928
 | endyear   = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1928 college football season|1928]]
 | name         = [[1928 Rice Owls football team|Rice]]
 | overall      = 2–7
 | conference   = 0–5
 | confstanding = 7th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Rice
 | overall    = 2–7
 | confrecord = 0–5
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
 | overall  = 46–36–3
 | bowls    = no
 | poll     = no
 | polltype = 
}}

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