WC Lynx Football | Robert Lamson

Head Coaches

ROBERT LAMSON
1934-48

The late Robert Lamson, an Iowa State graduate who played halfback for the Cyclones, came to Webster City in the second semester of the 1929-30 school year as a junior college basketball coach who also served as an assistant for the high school football squad. After five seasons as an assistant, Lamson then became the head coach of the high school football, basketball, and track teams and proceeded to put the Lynx on the Iowa athletic map.

Under Lamson, the Lynx won five North Central Conference titles while compiling a record of 75-45-6 which included two undefeated, 8-0 seasons in 1936 and 1944; the 1936 squad was also crowned as the Iowa State Champs and is only one of fourteen 11-man teams in Iowa prep history to go both unbeaten and unscored upon in a season. In his reign as a basketball coach, Lamson amassed a record of 246-92 while taking his players to the state finals on four different occasions. Known as the "Gray Fox", Lamson also served as the Lynx's Athletic Director and coached at Webster City for a total of twenty years before leaving in 1949 to become a freshman college football coach at his alma mater. Probably one of the most successful high school multi-coaches in Iowa history, Lamson was inducted into the Iowa High School Football Coaches Hall of Fame in 1968.

ROBERT LAMSON 1934-48 The late Robert Lamson, an Iowa State graduate who played halfback for the Cyclones, came to Webster City in the second semester of the 1929-30 school year as a junior college basketball coach who also served as an assistant for the high school football squad. After five seasons as an assistant, Lamson then became the head coach of the high school football, basketball, and track teams and proceeded to put the Lynx on the Iowa athletic map. Under Lamson, the Lynx won five North Central Conference titles while compiling a record of 75-45-6 which included two undefeated, 8-0 seasons in 1936 and 1944; the 1936 squad was also crowned as the Iowa State Champs and is only one of fourteen 11-man teams in Iowa prep history to go both unbeaten and unscored upon in a season. In his reign as a basketball coach, Lamson amassed a record of 246-92 while taking his players to the state finals on four different occasions. Known as the "Gray Fox", Lamson also served as the Lynx's Athletic Director and coached at Webster City for a total of twenty years before leaving in 1949 to become a freshman college football coach at his alma mater. Probably one of the most successful high school multi-coaches in Iowa history, Lamson was inducted into the Iowa High School Football Coaches Hall of Fame in 1968.