title: Paul LaVinn
text: # Paul LaVinn
  
  Lincoln Paul LaVinn (January 2, 1915 – August 10, 1975) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach.
  
  ## Coaching career
  
  ### Carthage
  
  LaVinn was the 12th head football coach at Carthage College in Carthage, Illinois, serving for two seasons, from 1945 to 1946, and compiling a record of 2–10–1. LaVinn started out with a win against Parsons College in Iowa and outscored opponents by 59 to 46 in his inaugural 1945 season, but ended up with a winless season in his second year of coaching.
  
  While at Carthage, LaVinn also coached the baseball team in 1947 to a 2–7 record, and found somewhat more success as the men's basketball coach for three seasons, from 1946 to 1948, with a record of 26–37.
  
  ### Eureka
  
  LaVinn was the seventh head football coach at Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois, serving for four seasons, from 1949 to 1951, and compilinga record of 4–17–1.
  
  LaVinn also coached the men's basketball team at Eureka for four seasons, from 1948 to 1952, tallying a mark of 44–38.
  
  ### High school coaching
  
  In August 1952, LaVinn was hired as the athletic director at Lockport Township High School in Lockport, Illinois. In additional to Lockport, he also coached at school in Maple Park, and New Lenox.
  
  ## Later life and death
  
  LaVinn moved in 1975 from Downer's Grove, Illinois to Largo, Florida. He died on August 10, 1975.
  
  ## Head coaching record
  
  ### Football
  
  | Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Carthage Red Men (Independent) (1945) ||||||
  | 1945 | Carthage | 2–3 | | |
  | Carthage Red Men (College Conference of Illinois) (1946) ||||||
  | 1946 | Carthage | 0–7–1 | 0–4 | 9th |
  | Carthage: | Carthage: | 2–10–1 | 0–4 | |
  | Eureka Red Devils (Independent) (1949–1951) ||||||
  | 1949 | Eureka | 1–7 | | |
  | 1950 | Eureka | 2–4–1 | | |
  | 1951 | Eureka | 1–6 | | |
  | Carthage: | Carthage: | 4–17–1 | | |
  | Total: | Total: | 6–27–2 | | |
  