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Clem Parberry - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Clem Parberry
- Clement Hughes Parberry (December 30, 1911 – July 11, 1976) was an American coach and athletic administrator in Idaho, at the College of Idaho in Caldwell and the University of Idaho in Moscow.Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Parberry graduated from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon.
- After coaching in Gooding, Idaho, he became the athletic director at the College of Idaho in 1938, and its head coach in football, basketball, and baseball.Parberry served in the U.S.
- Navy during World War II and the Korean War, rising to the rank of lieutenant commander.
- After his second tour ended in 1953, he joined the athletic staff at the University of Idaho as head baseball coach and assistant in football and basketball.
- Previously, the head basketball coach at UI also led the baseball program, but increasing overlap between the seasons led to his hiring, taking over from Charles Finley.Parberry led the Vandal baseball program for four seasons, then transferred to the physical education department; and Wayne Anderson succeeded him as head coach.
- Parberry ran the intramural program and retired from the university in 1975; he and his wife Viola and relocated to McCall, where they had owned and operated summer cabins on Payette Lake for decades.
- The following summer, Parberry died there of a heart attack at age 64, and is buried at the city cemetery. A scholarship at the University of Idaho in physical education is awarded in his honor.
