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Paul Amen

American sportsman

Summary

American sportsman

Field	Value
name	Paul Amen
image	Paul Amen.png
caption	Amen pictured in The Howler 1959, Wake Forest yearbook
birth_date
birth_place	Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.
death_date
death_place	Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.
player_sport1	Football
player_years2	1935–1937
player_team2	Nebraska
player_sport3	Basketball
player_years4	1935–1938
player_team4	Nebraska
player_sport5	Baseball
player_years6	1936–1938
player_team6	Nebraska
player_years7	1938
player_team7	Dallas Steers
player_years8	1939
player_team8	Youngstown Browns
player_positions	End (football)
coach_sport1	Football
coach_years2	1939–1940
coach_team2	Nebraska (assistant)
coach_years3	1943–1955
coach_team3	Army (assistant)
coach_years4	1956–1959
coach_team4	Wake Forest
coach_sport5	Basketball
coach_years6	1940–1941
coach_team6	Nebraska (assistant)
coach_sport7	Baseball
coach_years8	1943–1954
coach_team8	Army
overall_record	11–26–3 (football)
133–76–7 (baseball)

133–76–7 (baseball)

2× ACC Coach of the Year (1956, 1959)
Second-team All-Big Six (1937) Paul Johannes Amen (July 6, 1916 – June 4, 2005) was a prominent Nebraskan with notable accomplishments in both athletics and banking. He served as the head football coach at Wake Forest University from 1956 to 1959, compiling a record of 11–26–3. Amen was also the head baseball coach at the United States Military Academy from 1943 to 1954, tallying a mark of 133–76–7.

Playing career

Amen lettered in football, basketball, and baseball at the University of Nebraska. He was a member of the first U.S. Olympic baseball team at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin and played in the minor leagues in 1938 and 1939 before ending his athletic playing career.

Coaching career

Amen earned a master's degree in education from the University of Nebraska in 1940 while an assistant football coach there under Biff Jones. From 1943 to 1955, he was an assistant football coach and head baseball coach at West Point. He was a founding member of the American Baseball Coaches Association in 1945, serving as its president in 1952. Amen then became head football coach at Wake Forest University in 1956, where he was named ACC Coach of the Year in 1956 and 1959.

Banking career and death

After leaving Wake Forest, Amen retired from sports and begin a career at Wachovia Bank in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he rose to the rank of vice president. He then moved back to his birthplace to become president of the National Bank of Commerce in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1979, Amen was appointed Director of the Nebraska Department of Banking and Finance by Governor Charles Thone. He submitted his resignation as State banking director in 1983 to Governor Bob Kerrey within weeks of the collapse of Commonwealth Savings Company in Lincoln. Investigations showed that he had borne no responsibility for its failure. Amen died on June 4, 2005.

Head coaching record

Football

References

Wikipedia Source

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