14 Facts About Bruce Shorts

Bruce Carman Shorts was an American college football player and coach.

Bruce Shorts played as a tackle at the University of Michigan from 1900 to 1901.

Bruce Shorts attended high school at Mount Pleasant, Michigan before enrolling at the University of Michigan.

Bruce Shorts was regarded as one of the best tackles in the Western Conference.

Bruce Shorts was six feet one inch tall and weighed close to 190 pounds while playing at Michigan.

Bruce Shorts was very sick all season with an attack of appendicitis.

Bruce Shorts's enforced withdrawal from the team would have greatly weakened it.

Bruce Shorts played through the season, but this nearly cost him his life, for he was a short time later so sick that it was reported he had died.

Bruce Shorts is the best ground gainer of the line men.

Bruce Shorts replaced another former Michigan football player, Allen Steckle, as Nevada's coach.

Mr Bruce Shorts is undoubtedly one of the best posted as well as one of the best football players in the country.

Bruce Shorts is looked upon as the best coach west of the Mississippi River, and his work this year will undoubtedly result in maintaining, if not surpassing, the record made by Coach Steckle last year.

In 1905, Bruce Shorts was hired by the University of Oregon.

Bruce Shorts coached Nevada last season and has a record for turning out fast players.