24 Facts About Ralph Kohl

Ralph Anson Kohl was an American football player, coach and scout.

Ralph Kohl played at the tackle position on the University of Michigan's undefeated 1947 and 1948 football teams.

Ralph Kohl signed to play with the Baltimore Colts, but a knee injury prevented him from playing in the NFL.

Ralph Kohl was an assistant football coach at Eastern Michigan University and a head coach at Franklin College and Eastern Illinois University.

From 1964 until his retirement in 1993, Kohl worked as a professional football scout.

Ralph Kohl was considered the top scout in the BLESTO NFL scouting combine in the 1960s and 1970s and served as the head scout for the Minnesota Vikings for two decades.

Ralph Kohl was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio and grew up in University Heights.

Ralph Kohl attended high school in Cleveland Heights and prep school at the Kentucky Military Institute.

Ralph Kohl briefly enrolled at both the University of Kentucky and Western Teachers College.

Ralph Kohl played for the Kentucky Wildcats football team in 1942.

Ralph Kohl enlisted in the US Army Air Corps and served in Italy and Africa during World War II.

Ralph Kohl played right tackle for Bennie Oosterbaan's undefeated 1948 Michigan Wolverines football team.

Ralph Kohl played on Crisler's offensive squad in 1947, and he was switched to a defensive tackle in 1948.

In May 1949, after graduating from Michigan, Ralph Kohl signed with the Baltimore Colts, but a knee injury prevented him from playing in the NFL.

Ralph Kohl began a career as the football coach at Belding, Michigan High School in 1950.

Ralph Kohl then was the line coach for the Joliet Steelemen in the Greater Chicago League.

Ralph Kohl began as a scout for talent at Big Eight and then Big Ten universities.

Ralph Kohl was considered BLESTO's best scout and became the combine's Eastern supervisor scout in 1968.

Ralph Kohl has been rating players for nearly a quarter of a century and once was the top scout for the Blesto combine.

In 1981, Ralph Kohl recommended that the Vikings draft Villanova defensive lineman Howie Long.

Ralph Kohl developed a reputation as one of the best scouts in the NFL and said that the key to success was forming one's own opinions based on the facts and not buying into the conventional wisdom about players.

Ralph Kohl and his wife, Dorothy Ralph Kohl, had a daughter, Jackie, who was born in approximately 1954.

Ralph Kohl moved with his wife and daughter to Holland, Michigan in 1969.

Ralph Kohl died in June 1997 at Holland County Hospital in Saugatuck, Michigan.