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{{Short description|American college football and baseball coach (1922–2024)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Mike Lude
| image = Mike Lude.webp
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1922|6|30}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Milo Ralph Lude collection |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.124451/ |website=Library of Congress |access-date=March 15, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-huskies/mike-lude-longest-serving-ad-in-husky-history-still-going-90-miles-per-hour-at-98/|title=Mike Lude, longest serving AD in Husky history, still going '90 miles per hour' at 98|access-date=February 6, 2021}}</ref> 
| birth_place = [[Kalamazoo, Michigan]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2024|3|14|1922|6|30}}
| death_place = [[Tucson, Arizona]], U.S.
| alma_mater = 
| player_sport1 = Football
| player_years2 = 1946
| player_team2 = [[Hillsdale Chargers football|Hillsdale]]
| player_sport3 = Baseball
| player_years4 = 1945–1947
| player_team4 = [[Hillsdale Chargers|Hillsdale]]
| player_positions = [[Catcher]] (baseball)
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1948
| coach_team2 = [[Hillsdale Chargers football|Hillsdale]] (line)
| coach_years3 = 1949–1950
| coach_team3 = [[Maine Black Bears football|Maine]] (assistant)
| coach_years4 = 1951–1961
| coach_team4 = [[Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football|Delaware]] (line)
| coach_years5 = 1962–1969
| coach_team5 = [[Colorado State Rams football|Colorado State]]
| coach_sport6 = Baseball
| coach_years7 = 1948–1949
| coach_team7 = [[Hillsdale Chargers baseball|Hillsdale]]
| coach_years8 = 1950–1951
| coach_team8 = [[Maine Black Bears baseball|Maine]]
| admin_years1 = 1970–1976
| admin_team1 = [[Kent State Golden Flashes|Kent State]]
| admin_years2 = 1976–1991
| admin_team2 = [[Washington Huskies|Washington]]
| admin_years3 = 1992–1994
| admin_team3 = [[Auburn Tigers|Auburn]]
| overall_record = 29–51–1 (football)
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'''Milo Ralph Lude''' (June 30, 1922 – March 14, 2024) was an American [[college football]] and [[college baseball|baseball]] coach who became a college athletics administrator. He played football and baseball at [[Hillsdale Chargers|Hillsdale College]], where he was a member of the [[Alpha Tau Omega]] fraternity. He served as the head coach at [[Colorado State University]] from 1962 to 1969, compiling a record of 29–51–1.  Lude was the head baseball coach at Hillsdale College from 1948 to 1949 and at the [[University of Maine]] from 1950 to 1951.  He served as the [[athletic director]] at [[Kent State University]] (1970–1976), the [[University of Washington]] (1976–1991), and [[Auburn University]] (1992–1994).

As athletic director at Kent State, Lude offered [[Don James (American football)|Don James]] his first head coaching job in 1971; the two later worked together for fifteen years at Washington.

Lude went skydiving for the first time at the age of 93. In 2021, Lude stated that he planned to do the same for his 100th birthday.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hanson |first1=Scott |title='An unbelievable life': Mike Lude, longest serving AD in Husky history, still going '90 miles per hour' at 98 |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-huskies/mike-lude-longest-serving-ad-in-husky-history-still-going-90-miles-per-hour-at-98/ |access-date=16 December 2021 |publisher=The Seattle Times |date=5 February 2021}}</ref> He died in [[Tucson, Arizona]], on March 14, 2024, at the age of 101.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hanson |first1=Scott |title=Longtime UW Huskies athletic director Mike Lude dies at 101 |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-huskies/longtime-uw-huskies-athletic-director-mike-lude-dies-at-101/ |website=[[The Seattle Times]] |access-date=March 15, 2024}}</ref>

==Head coaching record==
===Football===
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Colorado State Rams football|Colorado State Rams]]
 | conf      = [[NCAA University Division|NCAA University Division independent]]
 | startyear = 1962
 | endyear   = 1967
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1962 NCAA University Division football season|1962]]
 | name         = [[1962 Colorado State Rams football team|Colorado State]]
 | overall      = 0–10
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1963 NCAA University Division football season|1963]]
 | name         = [[1963 Colorado State Rams football team|Colorado State]]
 | overall      = 3–7
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1964 NCAA University Division football season|1964]]
 | name         = [[1964 Colorado State Rams football team|Colorado State]]
 | overall      = 5–6
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1965 NCAA University Division football season|1965]]
 | name         = [[1965 Colorado State Rams football team|Colorado State]]
 | overall      = 4–6
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1966 NCAA University Division football season|1966]]
 | name         = [[1966 Colorado State Rams football team|Colorado State]]
 | overall      = 7–3
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1967 NCAA University Division football season|1967]]
 | name         = [[1967 Colorado State Rams football team|Colorado State]]
 | overall      = 4–5–1
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Colorado State Rams football|Colorado State Rams]]
 | conf      = [[Western Athletic Conference]]
 | startyear = 1968
 | endyear   = 1969
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1968 NCAA University Division football season|1968]]
 | name         = [[1968 Colorado State Rams football team|Colorado State]]
 | overall      = 2–8
 | conference   = 1–4{{#tag:ref|Colorado State's 1968 games against [[1968 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team|Texas Tech]] and [[1968 Air Force Falcons football team|Air Force]] counted in the conference standings even though neither of those teams was a member of the [[Western Athletic Conference]] (WAC).<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Football Standings |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/82336073/the-news-and-observer/ |newspaper=[[The News & Observer ]] |location=[[Raleigh, North Carolina]] |date=December 2, 1968 |page=20 |access-date=July 28, 2021 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{Open access}} }}</ref>|group=n}}
 | confstanding = 6th
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | year         = [[1969 NCAA University Division football season|1969]]
 | name         = [[1969 Colorado State Rams football team|Colorado State]]
 | overall      = 4–6
 | conference   = 0–4
 | confstanding = 8th
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 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Colorado State
 | overall    = 29–51–1
 | confrecord = 1–8
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
 | overall  = 29–51–1
 | bowls    = no
 | poll     = no
 | polltype = 
 | legend   = no
}}

===Baseball===
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| type         = coach
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Maine Black Bears baseball|Maine Black Bears]]
 | conference= [[Yankee Conference]]
 | startyear = 1950
 | endyear   = 1951
}}
{{CBB yearly record entry
 | season       = [[1950 NCAA baseball season|1950]]
 | name         = Maine
 | overall      = 12–9
 | conference   = 
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{{CBB yearly record entry
 | season       = [[1951 NCAA baseball season|1951]]
 | name         = Maine
 | overall      = 10–10
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}}
{{CBB yearly record subtotal| 
| name       = Maine
| overall    = {{winpct|22|19|record=y}}
| confrecord = 
}}
{{CBB yearly record end
| overall = {{winpct|22|19|record=y}}
}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://stats.ncaa.org/people/20339?sport_code=MBA|title=Milo R. "Mike" Lude|publisher=NCAA.org|accessdate=January 14, 2024}}</ref>

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