Dick Towers
Richard Ephraim Towers was an American football coach and college athletics administrator. He was the 12th head football coach at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, serving for seven seasons, from 1967 to 1973. He compiled a record of 29–37–2. Towers was the athletic director at Kansas State University from 1981 to 1985, Iowa State associate athletic director 1986–1989.
A native of Olathe, Kansas, Towers attended Kansas State University, where he played football as a halfback and ran track, competing in the half-mile and 400 metres hurdles. He was an All-American for the Kansas State Wildcats track and field team, placing 8th in the mile run at the 1952 NCAA track and field championships.
Towers died from complications of multiple myeloma in Manhattan, Kansas, on April 23, 2023. He was 92.