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{{Short description|American football, basketball and baseball coach and player of baseball}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Guy Lowman
| image = Guy S Lowman.jpg
| alt = 
| caption = Lowman pictured in ''The Royal Purple 1913'', Kansas State yearbook
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1877|5|12}}
| birth_place = [[Griswold, Iowa]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1943|9|14|1877|5|12}}
| death_place = [[Madison, Wisconsin]], U.S.
| player_sport1 = Baseball
| player_years2 = 1905
| player_team2 = [[Springfield Pride baseball|Springfield]]
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1907
| coach_team2 = [[Central Missouri Mules football|Warrensburg Teachers]]
| coach_years3 = 1909
| coach_team3 = [[Missouri Tigers football|Missouri]] (assistant)
| coach_years4 = 1910
| coach_team4 = [[Alabama Crimson Tide football|Alabama]]
| coach_years5 = 1911–1914
| coach_team5 = [[Kansas State Wildcats football|Kansas State]]
| coach_years6 = 1918
| coach_team6 = [[Wisconsin Badgers football|Wisconsin]]
| coach_sport7 = Basketball
| coach_years8 = 1907–1908
| coach_team8 = [[Central Missouri Mules and Jennies|Warrensburg Teachers]]
| coach_years9 = 1908–1910
| coach_team9 = [[Missouri Tigers men's basketball|Missouri]]
| coach_years10 = 1911–1914
| coach_team10 = [[Kansas State Wildcats men's basketball|Kansas State]]
| coach_years11 = 1916–1917
| coach_team11 = [[Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball|Indiana]]
| coach_years12 = 1917–1920
| coach_team12 = [[Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball|Wisconsin]]
| coach_sport13 = Baseball
| coach_years14 = 1907–1908
| coach_team14 = [[Central Missouri Mules and Jennies|Warrensburg Teachers]]
| coach_years15 = 1909–1910
| coach_team15 = [[Missouri Tigers baseball|Missouri]]
| coach_years16 = 1911
| coach_team16 = [[Alabama Crimson Tide baseball|Alabama]]
| coach_years17 = 1912–1915
| coach_team17 = [[Kansas State Wildcats baseball|Kansas State]]
| coach_years18 = 1918
| coach_team18 = [[Wisconsin Badgers baseball|Wisconsin]]
| coach_years19 = 1921–1932
| coach_team19 = Wisconsin
| admin_years1 = 1907–1908
| admin_team1 = [[Central Missouri Mules and Jennies|Warrensburg Teachers]]
| admin_years2 = 1910–1911
| admin_team2 = [[Alabama Crimson Tide|Alabama]]
| overall_record = 31–24–3 (football)<br>100–57 (basketball)
| bowl_record = 
| tournament_record = 
| championships = Football<br>1 [[Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference|KCAC]] (1912)
| awards = 
| coaching_records = 
}}

'''Guy Sumner Lowman''' (May 1877 – September 14, 1943) was an [[American football]], [[basketball]], and [[baseball]] coach and a player of baseball. He served as the head football coach at Warrensburg Teachers College—now the [[University of Central Missouri]] (1907), the [[University of Alabama]] (1910), [[Kansas State University]] (1911–1914), and the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] (1918). Lowman also coached basketball at Warrensburg Teachers College, now known as the [[University of Central Missouri]] (1907–1908), the [[University of Missouri]], (1908–1910), Kansas State (1911–1914), [[Indiana University (Bloomington)|Indiana University]] (1916), and Wisconsin (1917–1920) and baseball at Central Missouri State (1907–1908), Missouri (1909–1910), Alabama (1911), Kansas State (1912–1915), and Wisconsin (1918, 1921–1932).

==Playing career==
Lowman graduated from [[Springfield College]] in 1905, where he lettered in baseball.

==Coaching career==
Following graduation, he began his career at [[University of Central Missouri|Warrensburg Teachers College]], coaching football, basketball, and baseball from 1907 to 1908. Subsequently, from 1908 to 1910, he coached baseball and basketball at the [[University of Missouri]], posting a 19–15 record in basketball and 20–11–1 record in baseball. In 1910, he moved to the [[University of Alabama]], where he coached the [[American football|football]] team for one season, recording a 4–4 mark.

Leaving Alabama after one season, he moved to [[Kansas State University]], where he coached football (four seasons), basketball (three seasons), and baseball (four seasons) between 1911 and 1915. His basketball teams posted winning records each year he coached them. His best football season at Kansas State was 1912, when his squad posted an 8–2 record and won the [[Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference]] title.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040108141400/http://www.kancoll.org/khq/1940/40_3_evans.htm College Football in Kansas, by Harold C. Evans, Kansas Historical Quarterly, August, 1940<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He was fired after his 1914 football team recorded a 1–5–1 mark.

In 1916, Lowman moved to [[Indiana University (Bloomington)|Indiana University]], where he coached the basketball squad to a 13–6 record. From 1917 to 1920, he coached baseball and basketball at the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]]. He also coached the Wisconsin football team for the 1918 season, posting a 3–3 mark. His 1917–18 basketball team posted a 14–3 record and won the [[Big Ten Conference]] title.

==Later life, death and honors==
After his coaching career ended, Lowman remained at the University of Wisconsin–Madison as a professor, and served as chairman of the Physical Education Department there. He died on September 14, 1943, at the age of 66 after a long illness.<ref>{{cite news |title=Prof. Guy S. Lowman, Wisconsin Educator; Ex-Head of Physical Training Coached Basketball, Baseball |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/09/15/96565248.pdf |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=September 15, 1943 |access-date=May 21, 2012}}</ref> The baseball field at Wisconsin was named in his honor.

==Head coaching record==
===Football===
{{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Central Missouri Mules football|Warrensburg Teachers]]
 | conf      = 
 | startyear = 1907
 | endyear   = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1907 college football season|1907]]
 | name         = Warrensburg Teachers
 | overall      = 7–2
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Warrensburg Teachers
 | overall    = 7–2
 | confrecord = 
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Alabama Crimson Tide football|Alabama Crimson Tide]]
 | conf      = [[Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association]]
 | startyear = 1910
 | endyear   = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1910 college football season|1910]]
 | name         = [[1910 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|Alabama]]
 | overall      = 4–4
 | conference   = 1–4
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Alabama
 | overall    = 4–4
 | confrecord = 1–4
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Kansas State Wildcats football|Kansas State Aggies]]
 | conf      = [[Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference]]
 | startyear = 1911
 | endyear   = 1912
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1911 college football season|1911]]
 | name         = [[1911 Kansas State Aggies football team|Kansas State]]
 | overall      = 5–4–1
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = conference
 | year         = [[1912 college football season|1912]]
 | name         = [[1912 Kansas State Aggies football team|Kansas State]]
 | overall      = 8–2
 | conference   = 5–0
 | confstanding = 1st
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name         = [[Kansas State Wildcats football|Kansas State Aggies]]
 | conf         = [[Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference]] / [[Missouri Valley Conference]]
 | startyear    = 1913
 | endyear      = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1913 college football season|1913]]
 | name         = [[1913 Kansas State Aggies football team|Kansas State]]
 | overall      = 3–4–1
 | conference   = 2–1–1 / 0–2
 | confstanding = 4th / 6th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name         = [[Kansas State Wildcats football|Kansas State Aggies]]
 | conf         = [[Missouri Valley Conference]]
 | startyear    = 1914
 | endyear      = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1914 college football season|1914]]
 | name         = [[1914 Kansas State Aggies football team|Kansas State]]
 | overall      = 1–5–1
 | conference   = 0–3
 | confstanding = 7th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Kansas State
 | overall    = 17–15–3
 | confrecord = 
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Wisconsin Badgers football|Wisconsin Badgers]]
 | conf      = [[Big Ten Conference]]
 | startyear = 1918
 | endyear   = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1918 college football season|1918]]
 | name         = [[1918 Wisconsin Badgers football team|Wisconsin]]
 | overall      = 3–3
 | conference   = 1–2
 | confstanding = 7th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Wisconsin
 | overall    = 3–3
 | confrecord = 1–2
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
 | overall  = 31–24–3
 | bowls    = no
 | poll     = no
 | polltype = 
 | legend   = yes
}}

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