Bob Voigts, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Bob Voigts

American football player and coach, basketball player and coach, baseball coach

Date of Birth: 29-Mar-1916

Place of Birth: Evanston, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 07-Dec-2000

Profession: head coach, basketball coach, American football player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Bob Voigts

  • Werner Robert Voigts (March 29, 1916 – December 7, 2000) was an American football and basketball player and coach.
  • He served as the head football coach at Northwestern University from 1947 to 1954, compiling a record of 33–39–1.
  • Voigts led the 1948 Northwestern Wildcats team to the Rose Bowl, the first in school history, where they defeated California, 20–14. Voigts was a native of Evanston, Illinois, where Northwestern's main campus is located.
  • He attended Northwestern and played on the school's football team between 1936 and 1938.
  • In his sophomore year, the Wildcats won the Big Ten Conference, and Voigts was named an All-American tackle.
  • After college, Voigts served as an assistant football coach and head basketball coach at Illinois Wesleyan University before moving briefly to Yale University, where he was a football line coach.
  • He entered the U.S.
  • Navy during World War II in 1942 and was stationed outside of Chicago where he met Paul Brown, the head coach of the base's football team.
  • When Brown became head coach of the Cleveland Browns after the war, he hired Voigts as a tackle coach.
  • After a year with the Browns, Voigts became head coach at Northwestern. Voigts resigned as Northwestern's head coach in 1955, citing growing criticism of his coaching after a string of losing seasons.
  • He left football but stayed in Evanston, where he ran a real estate business for 30 years.
  • He died in 2000.

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