Concordia University Chicago Athletics

Reuben Stohs, ’48 – Stohs earned his bachelor’s degree in education from Concordia in 1948. He earned an M.A. in physical education from the University of Minnesota in 1957 and his doctorate in education from Ohio State University in 1966.

            
Stohs competed in baseball for two years and basketball for one year. He threw a no-hitter with 16 strikeouts against Wheaton College in 1946, and he would later add a 22-strikeout game in a 12-inning contest against Illinois Tech.

            
Stohs coached the Cougar baseball and basketball programs between 1954 and 1959, achieving a 73-39 record in basketball and 37-32 record in baseball. Stohs’ 1954-55 basketball team posted a perfect 10-0 record in conference and a 17-6 overall record, marking the second most number of wins in a season for a Cougar team at that point in the program’s history. Stohs would go on to coach 13 more years at Concordia Seward.

            
Stohs has been involved with professional baseball for many years, beginning with six years in the St. Louis Browns and the Brooklyn Dodgers organizations. He worked for the Kansas City Royals as a part-time scout and evaluator for the amateur draft program. Stohs later created a sports profile graph identifying personality characteristics of professional baseball players which the Royals have used since 1985.