Clinton Larue Hare (November 7, 1864 – June 4, 1909) was an American college football manager, organizer, and coach, and a lawyer and grocer.

[2] In 1886, Hare and three others—Merrill Moores, Pirtle Herod, and William Bradshaw—formed the Indianapolis Athletic Association (IAA) to introduce football in Indiana.

[4] After graduating from Yale, Hare returned to Indianapolis in 1887 and became a football coach at Butler, where his teams won two successive state championships.

Hare's team finished second place in the Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association to Butler, who beat all three of their in-state foes and was awarded the state championship.

[10] DePauw opened the season with strong wins over Butler and Indiana, but lost on November 7 to Hare's former team, Purdue, in West Lafayette, by a score of 30 to zero.

[11] Hare began his legal career in March 1888 when he entered the Indianapolis law firm of Harrison, Miller & Elam as a student.

In November 1888, the firm's titular partner and senior member, Benjamin Harrison, was elected as President of the United States.

Harrison appointed his advisor and fellow partner in the firm, William H. H. Miller to the post of United States Attorney General.

At this time Hare became the attorney for the Board of Children's Guardians, a body created by the Indiana General Assembly in 1889 to investigate and manage cases of child neglect.

[2][12] A fellow member of the Indianapolis Bar remarked on Hare's acumen in serving his client: In the trial of cases for the board he showed high ability as a lawyer.

After a period of illness lasting more than one year, Hare died of throat cancer, at his home in Indianapolis, on June 4, 1909.