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Cliff Speegle
Biographical details
Born	November 5, 1917; Roosevelt, Oklahoma, U.S.
Died	September 5, 1994 (aged 76); Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Playing career
Football
1938–1940	Oklahoma
1945	Chicago Cardinals
Position(s)	Center
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1941	Wewoka HS (OK)
1942	Capitol Hill HS (OK)
1946	Bacone
1947–1949	Oklahoma A&M (assistant)
1950	Northeast HS (OK)
1952–1953	Colgate (line)
1954	Edmonton Eskimos (line)
1955–1962	Oklahoma A&M/State
1963–1964	Toronto Argonauts (assistant)
1965–1966	Texas Western (assistant)
Basketball
1951–1952	Catholic HS (OK)
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1941–1942	Wewoka HS (OK)
1942–1943	Capitol Hill HS (OK)
1946–1947	Bacone
1973–1982	SWC (commissioner)
Head coaching record
Overall	36–42–3 (college football); 6–2–1 (junior college football)
Bowls	1–0 (college)
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
	Second-team All-Big Six (1939)

Clifton M. Speegle (November 4, 1917 – September 5, 1994) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater from 1955 to 1962, compiling a record of 36–42–3. During his tenure, Oklahoma State was 0–8 in the Bedlam Series, their rivalry game against the Oklahoma Sooners. Speegle was fired in 1962. He played college football at the University of Oklahoma from 1938 to 1940.

Speegle began his coaching career in 1941 as the head football coach at Wewoka High School in Wewoka, Oklahoma. The next year he served in the same capacity at Capitol Hill High School in Oklahoma City. Speegle served at Del Rio, Texas as an instructor in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. In 1945, he played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) with the Chicago Cardinals. Speegle was hired as the head football coach at Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma in 1946.^[1] He was also the athletic director at Bacone before leaving the school in 1947.^[2]

From 1947 to 1949, Speegle was an assistant football coach at Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College—now known as Oklahoma State University–Stillwater—under head football coach Jim Lookabaugh. In 1950, he was the head football coach at Northeast High School in Oklahoma.^[3] He left Northeast after a season to go into the insurance business, but returned to coaching in the winter of 1951–52 as head basketball coach at Catholic High School in Oklahoma City. In 1952, Hal Lahar, newly-appointed as the head football coach at Colgate University, hired Speegle as his line coach.^[4]

Head coaching record

College football


Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Bowl/playoffs	AP^#
Oklahoma A&M Aggies (Missouri Valley Conference) (1955–1956)
1955	Oklahoma A&M	2–8	1–3	T–4th
1956	Oklahoma A&M	3–5–2	2–1–1	T–2nd
Oklahoma State Cowboys (Independent) (1957–1959)
1957	Oklahoma State	6–3–1
1958	Oklahoma State	8–3			W Bluegrass	19
1959	Oklahoma State	6–4
Oklahoma State Cowboys (Big Eight Conference) (1960–1962)
1960	Oklahoma State	3–7	2–5	T–6th
1961	Oklahoma State	4–6	2–5	T–6th
1962	Oklahoma State	4–6	2–5	6th
Oklahoma A&M/State:		36–42–3	9–19–1
Total:		36–42–3
^#Rankings from final AP Poll.