Leonard Brumm later served as a player-coach for the Marquette Sentinels, Des Moines Oak Leafs, Waterloo Blackhawks and Marquette Iron Rangers.
20 Facts About Leonard Brumm
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Leonard Brumm was born in Ironwood, Michigan in 1926 and raised in Marquette, Michigan, both cities located in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
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Leonard Brumm played freshman football at Michigan in the fall of 1947.
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Leonard Brumm next accepted a job as the athletic director at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, a position he held from 1951 to 1953.
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From 1953 to 1957, Leonard Brumm was employed at the Marquette Branch Prison, a maximum-security prison in Marquette, Michigan.
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Leonard Brumm later wrote a book, "We Only Played Home Games" about his time as the prison's athletic director.
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Leonard Brumm developed an 18-hole miniature golf course, shuffleboard courts, bocce court, and curling rink at the prison.
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Leonard Brumm led the Sentinels to the Gibson Cup playoffs in 1956 and the Northern Michigan-Ontario League championship in 1957.
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In 1964, Leonard Brumm was hired as the coach of the Marquette Iron Rangers a newly formed franchise in the USHL.
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Leonard Brumm remained the team's coach into the mid-1970s, for all but the final two years of the club's existence.
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In October 1969, Leonard Brumm signed Karen Koch to a contract to play with the team.
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In 1968, Leonard Brumm acquired an ownership interest in the Marquette Mirror.
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Leonard Brumm served as the newspaper's sports director and political columnist from 1968 to 1972.
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In 1982, while working on a large construction project in Kuwait, Leonard Brumm co-founded the Kuwait National Hockey League.
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Leonard Brumm remained in Kuwait, and affiliated with the league, until he returned to the United States in the spring of 1987.
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Leonard Brumm was inducted into the Upper Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame in 1992.
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Leonard Brumm was forced to resign in 1998 at age 71 and subsequently filed an age discrimination lawsuit against the Elmbrook Public School District.
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In 2000, Leonard Brumm acquired The Wisconsin Hockey News, serving as the publication's owner and editor.
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Leonard Brumm became the rink manager at the Kenosha Ice Arena in 2004.
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Leonard Brumm died in 2006 of pancreatic and liver cancer in Racine, Wisconsin.