team around this time. Clingenpeel gave his position as track coach to George Kline around this time. In 1931–32, he led the basketball team to another conference championship, and it was written in The Ragout that championships "have come to be customary instead of occasional acquisitions." Although the 1932–33 basketball team was very inexperienced, Clingenpeel again brought them to the conference championship. They did not win it in 1933–34, the first time in four years. Clingenpeel led the football team in 1934 to their first conference championship since 1930. He continued coaching the football and basketball teams until 1941, when he had to stop for a year due to an illness. His health returned in 1942; however, when he went back to continue coaching, the school told him that he had been dismissed. The Kansas City Star sports editor wrote that, "There's something wrong somewhere in a case like that," considering that Clingenpeel had served the college for nearly two decades, took a year off from illness, and was then abruptly notified that he had been dismissed after returning to health. He finished his tenure at Central with four football conference championships and five more in basketball. Later life and death After being dismissed from Central, Clingenpeel began serving in the personnel department at Pratt & Whitney. He was named director of field activities for the Missouri State Chamber of Commerce in 1945. A few years later, he began operating a news agency bearing his name. Clingenpeel was presented with the Central College Distinguished Alumni Award in 1952. Six years later, he was inducted into the NAIA Hall of Fame. He died of a stroke, on December 2, 1975, in Fayette. Clingenpeel was posthumously inducted into the Central College (now Central Methodist) Hall of Fame in 1983, as a charter member. Head coaching record College football References External links 1886 births 1975 deaths American football quarterbacks Baseball catchers Austin Kangaroos athletic directors Austin Kangaroos football coaches Central Methodist Eagles athletic directors Central Methodist Eagles baseball players Central Methodist Eagles football coaches Central Methodist Eagles football players Central Methodist Eagles men's basketball coaches Central Methodist Eagles men's basketball players High school basketball coaches in Missouri High school football coaches in Missouri People from Ottawa County, Kansas