1. Francis Xavier Lauterbur was an American football player and coach.
23 Facts About Frank Lauterbur
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Frank Lauterbur was an assistant coach in the National Football League.
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Frank Lauterbur was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, but when his widowed mother remarried, he moved north to Michigan.
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Frank Lauterbur played high school football at University of Detroit Jesuit High School.
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Frank Lauterbur served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II before going to college.
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Frank Lauterbur returned to Ohio and played three years of college football at Mount Union College.
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Frank Lauterbur began his coaching career at Wickliffe and Collinwood high schools near Cleveland, Ohio.
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Frank Lauterbur spent two years as an assistant coach at Kent State University from 1953 to 1954, followed by two years as an assistant coach with the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League.
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Frank Lauterbur wanted to return to college football, so he left the Colts to take a job as the offensive line coach at the United States Military Academy under head coach Earl Blaik in 1957.
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Frank Lauterbur spent five years at West Point, including the undefeated 1958 season that featured Heisman Trophy winner Pete Dawkins.
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Frank Lauterbur then served as an assistant coach for one season at the University of Pittsburgh in 1962.
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Frank Lauterbur was offered his first college head coaching job by the University of Toledo before the 1963 season.
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Frank Lauterbur was Toledo's head football coach and athletic director for eight years, from 1963 to 1970.
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Frank Lauterbur then led Toledo to consecutive undefeated seasons in 1969 and 1970.
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Frank Lauterbur was hired as the 22nd head coach in the history of Iowa football before the 1971 season.
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Frank Lauterbur was expected to bring strong defense to Iowa, since his 1970 Toledo team had led the nation in total defense and pass defense and ranked second in the nation in scoring defense.
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Frank Lauterbur refused, stating that he had to have full control of his staff and that it was his right, not Elliott's, to hire and fire assistant coaches.
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Frank Lauterbur was a good guy, but Iowa clearly was not the right place for him.
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Frank Lauterbur spent the rest of his career as a pro assistant.
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Frank Lauterbur worked for years as an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Rams, coaching in Super Bowl XIV in 1980.
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Frank Lauterbur coached in the United States Football League for the Pittsburgh Maulers.
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Frank Lauterbur had a wife, Mary, as well as four children and two grandchildren.
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Frank Lauterbur died at a Toledo nursing home of dementia and Parkinson's disease in 2013, aged 88.