Michigan Wolverines Football Head Coaches - Bump Elliott, Rich Rodriguez, Bo Schembechler, Mike Murphy, Bennie Oosterbaan, Fritz Crisler (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 132. Not illustrated. Chapters: Bump Elliott, Rich Rodriguez, Bo Schembechler, Mike Murphy, Bennie Oosterbaan, Fritz Crisler, Elton Wieman, Fielding Yost, Lloyd Carr, Gustave Ferbert, Gary Moeller, Harry G. Kipke, George Little, Langdon Lea, Frank Crawford, Frank Barbour, William Mccauley, William Ward. Excerpt: Chalmers W. "Bump" Elliott (born January 30, 1925 in Detroit, Michigan) is a former American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played halfback at Purdue University (19431944) and the University of Michigan (19461947). Elliott grew up in Bloomington, Illinois, enlisted in the United States Marine Corps as a senior in high school and was assigned to the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Purdue University. He received varsity letters in football, baseball, and basketball at Purdue, before being called into active duty in late 1944, serving with the Marines in China. After being discharged from the military, he enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1946 and joined the football team for whom his brother Pete Elliott played quarterback. In 1947, he played for an undefeated and untied Michigan football team known as the "Mad Magicians," led the Big Nine Conference in scoring, won the Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy as the Most Valuable Player in the Conference, and was selected as an All-American by the American Football Coaches Association. After graduating from Michigan in 1948, Elliott spent ten years as an assistant football coach at Oregon State, Iowa, and Michigan. He was appointed as Michigan's head football coach in 1959 and held that position until 1968, leading the team to a Big Ten Conference championship and Rose Bowl victory in the 1964 season. For a period of 21 years from 19701991, he was the athletic director at the University of Iowa. During his tenure as athletic dir...