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{{Short description|American football, basketball, and baseball player}}
{{for|persons of a similar name|Edward Krause (disambiguation)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Moose Krause
| image = Moose Krause.jpg
| alt = 
| caption = 
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1913|2|2}}
| birth_place = [[Chicago|Chicago, Illinois]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1992|12|11|1913|2|2}}
| death_place = [[South Bend, Indiana]], U.S.
| alma_mater = 
| player_sport1 = Football
| player_years2 = 1931–1933
| player_team2 = [[Notre Dame Fighting Irish football|Notre Dame]]
| player_sport3 = Basketball
| player_years4 = 1931–1934
| player_team4 = [[Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball|Notre Dame]]
| player_positions = [[Tackle (gridiron football position)|Tackle]] (football)<br />[[Center (basketball)|Center]] (basketball)
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1934–1938
| coach_team2 = [[Saint Mary's Redmen football|Saint Mary's (MN)]]
| coach_years3 = 1939–1941
| coach_team3 = [[Holy Cross Crusaders football|Holy Cross]] (line)
| coach_years4 = 1942–1943
| coach_team4 = [[Notre Dame Fighting Irish football|Notre Dame]] (line)
| coach_years5 = 1946–1947
| coach_team5 = Notre Dame (line)
| coach_sport6 = Basketball
| coach_years7 = 1934–1939
| coach_team7 = [[Saint Mary's Cardinals men's basketball|Saint Mary's (MN)]]
| coach_years8 = 1939–1942
| coach_team8 = [[Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball|Holy Cross]]
| coach_years9 = 1943–1944
| coach_team9 = [[Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball|Notre Dame]]
| coach_years10 = 1946–1951
| coach_team10 = Notre Dame
| coach_sport11 = Baseball
| coach_years12 = 1937–1939
| coach_team12 = [[Saint Mary's Cardinals baseball|Saint Mary's (MN)]]
| admin_years1 = 1934–1939
| admin_team1 = [[Saint Mary's Cardinals|Saint Mary's (MN)]]
| admin_years2 = 1948–1949
| admin_team2 = [[Notre Dame Fighting Irish|Notre Dame]] (assistant AD)
| admin_years3 = 1949–1981
| admin_team3 = Notre Dame
| overall_record = 8–29–4 (football)<br />155–114 (basketball)<br />16–16 (baseball)
| bowl_record = 
| tournament_record = 
| championships = 
| awards = 
* Second-team [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] ([[1932 College Football All-America Team|1932]])
* 3× [[NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|Basketball All-American]] ([[1932 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1932]]–[[1934 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1934]])
* [[Walter Camp Man of the Year]] (1976)
* [[National Football Foundation Distinguished American Award|NFF Distinguished American Award]] (1989)
| coaching_records = 
| BASKHOF_year = 1976
| CBBASKHOF_year = 2006
| BASKHOF_id = edward-krause
}}
'''Edward Walter''' "'''Moose'''" '''Krause''' (born '''Edward Walter Kriaučiūnas'''; {{langx|lt|Edvardas Valteris Kriaučiūnas}}; February 2, 1913 – December 11, 1992) was an [[American football]], [[basketball]], and [[baseball]] player, [[track and field|track]] athlete, coach, and college athletics administrator. He lettered in four sports at the [[University of Notre Dame]], where he was a three-time consensus [[NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|All-American in basketball]] (1932–1934). Krause served as the head basketball coach at Saint Mary's College in [[Winona, Minnesota]], now [[Saint Mary's University of Minnesota]], from 1934 to 1939, at the [[College of the Holy Cross]] from 1939 to 1942, and at Notre Dame from 1943 to 1944 and 1946 to 1951, compiling a career [[college basketball]] record of 155–114. He was Notre Dame's [[athletic director]] from 1949 to 1981. Krause was inducted into the [[Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame]] in 1976 and the [[College Basketball Hall of Fame]] in 2006.

==Early life and playing career==
Born Edward Walter Kriaučiūnas in [[Chicago]] to [[Lithuanian Americans|Lithuanian immigrant]] parents, Krause grew up in the Town of Lake section or, as it was once known as, Back of the Yards. His brother, [[Feliksas Kriaučiūnas]], was the captain of [[Lithuania men's national basketball team|Lithuania national basketball team]] in 1937. His surname was shortened to Krause by his high school football coach, who could not pronounce ''Kriaučiūnas'' ({{IPA|lt|krɪ.ɐutɕɪˈuːnɐs|Lithuanian pronunciation:}}).

At the [[University of Notre Dame]], Krause competed in track, baseball, football and basketball, becoming the first Notre Dame player to make the halls of fame of both basketball and football. In basketball, he was a three-time consensus All-American, in [[1932 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1932]], [[1933 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1933]], and [[1934 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1934]]. Krause played football for the [[Notre Dame Fighting Irish football|Fighting Irish]] under [[Hunk Anderson]]. He graduated cum laude from Notre Dame with a journalism degree in 1934 .

==Coaching career==
Krause's coaching career included a five-year stint as head coach in all sports at Saint Mary's College in [[Winona, Minnesota]], now [[Saint Mary's University of Minnesota]]; an assistant football coach at the [[College of the Holy Cross]] and the [[University of Notre Dame]] for ten years; and head basketball coach at the University of Notre Dame in 1943 and again from 1946 to 1951, when he compiled a record of 98–48 (.671).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.moosekrause.org/about.html |title=Moose Krause Chapter |access-date=July 30, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218215201/http://moosekrause.org/about.html |archive-date=February 18, 2015 }}</ref> As acting head football coach at Notre Dame, filling in for an ailing [[Frank Leahy]], Krause was 3–0.

==Military service==
Krause served in the [[United States Marines]] during [[World War II]] including a 14-month stretch as an air combat intelligence officer in the [[Asiatic-Pacific Theater|South Pacific]].<ref name="named-ad">{{cite news |date=March 23, 1949 |title='Moose' Krause Named Athletic Director at ND |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/tampa-bay-times-moose-krause-named-ath/162686082/ |access-date=2025-01-10 |newspaper=[[St. Petersburg Times]] |pages=21 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |agency=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref>

==Administrative career==
Krause became the assistant athletic director at Notre Dame in 1948. In March 1949, he was named athletic director, succeeding [[Frank Leahy]], who stepped down from the role to focus on his post as head football coach.<ref name=named-ad/>

==Later years==
Krause died on December 11, 1992, at his home in [[South Bend, Indiana]].<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Ex-Irish A.D. 'Moose' Krause a 'true legend' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56146339/the-star-press/ |newspaper=[[The Star Press]] |location=[[Muncie, Indiana]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=December 12, 1992 |page=16 |access-date=July 26, 2020 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{Open access}} |archive-date=August 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804021620/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56146339/the-star-press/ |url-status=live }}</ref> He was buried in the [[Campus of the University of Notre Dame#Cemeteries|Cedar Grove Cemetery]] in [[Notre Dame, Indiana]].

==Head coaching record==
===Football===
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Saint Mary's Redmen football|Saint Mary's Redmen]]
 | conf      = [[Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference]]
 | startyear = 1934
 | endyear   = 1938
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1934 college football season|1934]]
 | name         = Saint Mary's
 | overall      = 4–3–2
 | conference   = 2–2–1
 | confstanding = 6th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1935 college football season|1935]]
 | name         = Saint Mary's
 | overall      = 2–6
 | conference   = 0–5
 | confstanding = 8th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1936 college football season|1936]]
 | name         = Saint Mary's
 | overall      = 1–8
 | conference   = 1–3
 | confstanding = T–5th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1937 college football season|1937]]
 | name         = Saint Mary's
 | overall      = 1–4–2
 | conference   = 1–2–1
 | confstanding = T–5th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = 
 | year         = [[1938 college football season|1938]]
 | name         = Saint Mary's
 | overall      = 0–7
 | conference   = 0–5
 | confstanding = T–7th
 | bowlname     = 
 | bowloutcome  = 
 | bcsbowl      = 
 | ranking      = no
 | ranking2     = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Saint Mary's
 | overall    = 8–29–4
 | confrecord = 4–17–2
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
 | overall  = 8–29–4
 | bowls    = no
 | poll     = no
 | polltype = 
 | legend   = no
}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book |title=Mr. Notre Dame: The Life and Legend of Edward Moose Krause |last=Kelly |first=Jason |year=2002 |publisher=Diamond Communications |location=[[Lanham, Maryland]] |isbn=1-888698-40-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/mrnotredamelifel0000kell |url-access=registration }}

==External links==
* {{Basketballhof|edward-krause}}
* [http://www.saintmaryssports.com/hof.aspx?hof=20&path=&kiosk= Moose Krause] at the Saint Mary's University Sports Hall of Fame
* {{Find a Grave}}

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