page_title: List of Eastern Michigan Eagles head football coaches
section_title: Clayton Teetzel (1900–1902)
hierarchical_section_title: List of Eastern Michigan Eagles head football coaches / Profiles / Clayton Teetzel (1900–1902)
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Clayton Teetzel
context_page_description: The Eastern Michigan Eagles football program is a college football team that represents Eastern Michigan University in the Mid-American Conference, a part of the NCAA Division I. The team has had 40 head coaches, including four interim head coaches who each served less than one full season, since its first recorded football game in 1891. The current coach is Chris Creighton, who took the position for the 2014 season.
  Many of EMU's head coaches have had brief tenures with the program; 18 head coaches served for one season or less. Among the more notable head coaches at EMU have been Clayton Teetzel, Henry Schulte, Elton Rynearson, Fred Trosko, Dan Boisture, Mike Stock, and Jim Harkema. Rynearson was the longest-serving and winningest coach, with a record of 114-58-15 over 26 seasons, while Vern Bennett posted the highest winning percentage, 71.4%. Tony Lombardi was the shortest-tenured coach, both in time and number of games, leading the team only for five days, and only for the final game of the 1999 season.
context_section_description: Clayton Teetzel was the first career coach at Michigan State Normal. Teetzel played end on the 1897 and 1898 Michigan Wolverines football teams before switching to halfback in 1899. Teetzel graduated from the University of Michigan Law School with an LL.B. degree in 1900, following which he became the head coach at Michigan State Normal. After three seasons at MSNC, during which he compiled a 6-14-1 record, Teetzel left the school to coach football at Benton Harbor High School in 1903, 1904, and 1905. Teetzel went on to Brigham Young University (1905–1908) and Utah State Agricultural College (1908–1916), where he headed the athletic departments and coached a variety or sports, including basketball and track.
caption: Clayton Teetzel in 1897.
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