He served as the head football coach at Midland College–now known as Midland University–in Fremont, Nebraska from 1930 to 1934 and Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania from 1935 to 1940, compiling a career college football head coaching record of 23–49–7.
Lawrence was also the head basketball coach at Allegheny from 1935 to 1941 and at Colgate University from 1941 to 1949, tallying a career college basketball head coaching mark of 118–96.
Lawrence played football, basketball, and baseball at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, from which he graduated in 1926.
He was inducted into the Concordia Athletics Hall of Fame in 1987.
[1] Lawrence was the head football coach at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania.