Frank Cleve


Frank Irving Cleve was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and minor league baseball player. He served as the head football coach at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota from 1926 to 1935, compiling a record of 30–30–13. Cleve was also the head basketball coach at Concordia from 1927 to 1936, tallying a mark of 86–84.
Cleve attended St. [Olaf College] in Northfield, Minnesota. In 1925, he was hired as athletic coach at Spokane College in Spokane, Washington, succeeding Abe Cohn.
His older brother, Ainer Cleve, played professional football in the early years of the National Football League.
Cleve died on August 12, 1970, at South Fairview Hospital in Edina, Minnesota, following an illness that began in January of that year.