1. Burton Aherns Ingwersen was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach of football and baseball.
16 Facts About Burt Ingwersen
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Burt Ingwersen was born in Bryant, Iowa, a suburb of Clinton, but his parents and he moved across the river to Fulton, Illinois, when Burt Ingwersen was in grade school.
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Burt Ingwersen accepted a scholarship offer from the University of Illinois.
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Burt Ingwersen played for Bob Zuppke at Illinois from 1917 to 1919.
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Burt Ingwersen served as an assistant coach at Illinois under Bob Zuppke from 1921 to 1923, the team again winning the college national championship in 1923.
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Burt Ingwersen's appointment was unanimously approved by the athletic board, although the selection was opposed by some Iowa alumni at the time.
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The first was that Burt Ingwersen was not a "name" coach; he had only been out of college for three years, and he did not have the credentials of Rockne.
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Second, Burt Ingwersen was perceived as a "traitor" by some Hawkeyes who felt that despite growing up in Illinois he was a native-born Iowan who turned his back on the state to play and coach for the Illini.
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Worse for some fans, the loss was to Zuppke and Illinois, Burt Ingwersen's alma mater, the same school that had cost Iowa the championship in 1918 and 1919 while Burt Ingwersen was a member of the Illini squad.
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Fan opposition to Burt Ingwersen grew and sentiment turned on Burt Ingwersen's biggest supporter, Paul Belting, as well.
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In 1932 Burt Ingwersen went to Louisiana State University as the number one assistant coach to Biff Jones, a lifelong friend.
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In 1935 Burt Ingwersen became an assistant football coach at Northwestern University under Pappy Waldorf.
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Burt Ingwersen coached there during through 1942 and served as Northwestern's baseball coach from 1936 to 1939 as well.
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In 1943 Burt Ingwersen joined the US Navy and served in World War II as athletic director for the Navy's North Carolina pre-flight school through June 1945.
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Burt Ingwersen coached as an assistant under Pete Elliott at Illinois, serving a total of 22 years in his second stint.
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Burt Ingwersen died at age 70 on July 15,1969, in Champaign, Illinois.