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Allen Jeardeau
	Jeardeau in 1897
Biographical details
Born	April 1, 1866; Grant County, Wisconsin, U.S.
Died	April 10, 1900 (aged 34); Grant County, Wisconsin, U.S.
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1895	Platteville Normal
1896–1897	LSU
1898	Platteville Normal
Baseball
1898	LSU
Head coaching record
Overall	10–2–1 (football); 2–3 (baseball)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
	Football; 1 SIAA (1896)

Allen Wilson Jeardeau (April 1, 1866 – April 10, 1900) was an American college football and college baseball coach.^[1] He served as the head football coach at the Platteville Normal School—now the University of Wisconsin–Platteville—in 1895 and 1898 and at Louisiana State University (LSU) from 1896 to 1897.^[2] In 1896, his first season with the LSU Tigers, Jeardeau led the team to a 6–0 record and a Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) championship. He was also the head coach of the LSU Tigers baseball team in 1898.^{[citation needed]} Jeardeau was a graduate of the Platteville Normal School and a student at Harvard University. He died of pneumonia on April 10, 1900, at his home near Platteville, Wisconsin.^[3]^[4]

Head coaching record


Year	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing
Platteville Normal Pioneers (Independent) (1895)
1895	Platteville Normal	3–0–1
LSU Tigers (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1896–1897)
1896	LSU	6–0	4–0	T–1st
1897	LSU	1–1	0–0
LSU:		7–1	4–0
Platteville Normal Pioneers (Independent) (1898)
1898	Platteville Normal	0–1
Platteville Normal:		3–1–1
Total:		10–2–1
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth

Statistics overview
Season	Team	Overall
LSU Tigers (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1898–1898)
1898	LSU	2–3
LSU:		2–3 (.400)
Total:		2–3 (.400)

^ Harvard University. Class of 1896 (1911). Secretary's ... Report. Retrieved June 20, 2015.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "LSU Year-by-Year Records" (PDF). lsusports.net. p. 107. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 19, 2018. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
^ "Allen Jeardeau". The Daily Tribune. April 14, 1900. p. 6. Retrieved September 13, 2017 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Allen Jeardeau". The Centralia Enterprise and Tribune. Centralia, Wisconsin. April 14, 1900. p. 6. Retrieved May 26, 2015 – via Newspapers.com .