Paul Amen

Paul Amen played with the US team at the 1936 Berlin Olympics in the demonstration baseball. He played in college at the University of Nebraska, where he also played football and basketball. Amen later obtained a masters’ degree in education from Nebraska.

From 1943-55 Amen coached baseball at the US Military Academy, compiling a record of 133-76-7. He also served as an assistant football coach. From 1956-59 he was the head football coach at Wake Forest University, with a final record of only 11-26-3, although he was named ACC Coach of the Year in 1956 and 1959. Amen was a founding member of the American Baseball Coaches Association in 1945 and was the group president in 1952.

Amen left coaching after Wake Forest and became a vice-president at Wachovia Bank in Charlotte, North Carolina. He moved back to Lincoln, Nebraska to become President of the National Bank of Commerce. In 1979 Nebraska Governor Charles Thone appointed Amen to be a director of the Nebraska Department of Banking and Finance. Amen resigned in 1983 after the collapse of the Commonwealth Savings Company in Lincoln.