Alton S Kircher was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach.
13 Facts About Al Kircher
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Al Kircher was a star athlete at Gladstone High School and then attended Michigan State College in East Lansing, where he earned nine letters in football, basketball, and baseball for the Spartans.
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Al Kircher was the quarterback on the football team and the captain of the basketball team.
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Al Kircher began his coaching career in Michigan at Trout Creek High School in 1935 as the basketball coach, and won two state titles, in 1935 and 1937.
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Al Kircher moved to Marquette in 1937 and coached at Marquette High School.
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Al Kircher was later awarded a Silver Star and two Bronze Stars.
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When fellow Spartan assistant Forest Evashevski was hired as the head football coach at Washington State College of the Pacific Coast Conference in 1950, Al Kircher followed him west and joined his staff in Pullman as backfield coach.
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Evashevski left for Iowa of the Big Ten Conference in January 1952 and Al Kircher planned to go east with him, but was promoted and stayed on the Palouse as the 20th head coach of the Cougar football program.
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Al Kircher was relieved of his head coaching duties in November 1955 with a year remaining on his five-year contract, at $12,500 per year.
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Al Kircher opted to stay in Pullman and acquired a motel-restaurant, the Hilltop Lodge, in early 1956.
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Al Kircher died in 2004 at a nursing home in Salem, at age 94.
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Al Kircher was inducted into the Upper Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame in Michigan in 1985.
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Al Kircher was added to the Gladstone High School hall of fame in 2013.