Ray Louthen
# Ray Louthen

Raymond A. "Red" Louthen (October 4, 1925 – December 3, 2004) was an American football and baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Ball State University from 1962 to 1967, compiling a record of 37–13–3. Louthen was also the head baseball coach at Ball State from 1959 to 1970, tallying a mark of 158–127–1.

## Coaching career

### College baseball

Louthen was the head baseball coach at Ball State from 1959 to 1970; he was a 3-time Indiana Collegiate Conference Coach of the Year (1960, 1961, 1962.) He coached six ICC MVPs (Dean Campbell, Mike Readnour, Homer Jackson, Frank Houk, Ed Sherry and Jim Roudebush) and 19 All-ICC players. Two of his players reached the major leagues; Merv Rettenmund and Steve Hargan.

## Head coaching record

### College football

| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ball State Cardinals (Indiana Collegiate Conference) (1962–1967) ||||||
| 1962 | Ball State | 4–3–1 | 2–3–1 | 6th | |
| 1963 | Ball State | 5–3 | 4–2 | 2nd | |
| 1964 | Ball State | 5–3 | 4–2 | T–1st | |
| 1965 | Ball State | 9–0–1 | 6–0 | 1st | T Grantland Rice |
| 1966 | Ball State | 7–1–1 | 5–0–1 | 1st | |
| 1967 | Ball State | 7–3 | 5–1 | 1st | L Grantland Rice |
| Ball State: | Ball State: | 37–13–3 | 26–8–2 | | |
| Total: | Total: | 37–13–3 | | | |
| National championship  Conference title  Conference division title or championship game berth ||||||
