35 Facts About Tad Wieman

Elton Ewart "Tad" Wieman was an American college football player and coach and athletics administrator.

Tad Wieman played football for the University of Michigan from 1915 to 1917 and 1920 under head coach Fielding H Yost.

Tad Wieman was a coach and administrator at Michigan from 1921 to 1929, including two years as the school's head football coach.

Tad Wieman was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1956.

Tad Wieman was born in Tulare County, California, and raised in Los Angeles.

Tad Wieman's father, William H Wieman, was a native of Missouri and a Presbyterian minister.

Tad Wieman was the seventh of eight children born to William and his wife Alma.

At Los Angeles High School, Tad Wieman followed in the footsteps of four older brothers, Henry, "Ink," Drury and "Tabby" Tad Wieman.

Tad Wieman worked nights to pay for his expenses and studied into the morning to keep up with his classes.

Tad Wieman reportedly took the punishment and came up from under the pile each time smiling.

Tad Wieman has a peculiar way of running with a loose hitch in his hips that shakes off tacklers.

Tad Wieman gives Rugby and basketball the credit for his ability to catch the ball.

Tad Wieman has been called "one of the greatest linemen ever developed" by Yost.

Tad Wieman is a giant who musters nearly 200 pounds of actual muscle.

Tad Wieman has developed the plunging habit that results in big gains every time he tries it in scrimmage.

Nobody knows what Yost would do if Tad Wieman got laid out, but he is not the type of man that is likely to spend any time flat on his back.

However, in December 1917, Tad Wieman announced his intention of enlisting in the Aviation Corps.

Tad Wieman returned to Los Angeles for a time in January 1918, while awaiting his call to service.

Tad Wieman ultimately became a lieutenant in the air service and played tackle on a championship service team.

Tad Wieman was "one of the best liked and respected men on the team," and finished his football career playing with a badly injured knee.

Tad Wieman was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and won the Western Conference Medal for excellence in scholarship and athletics.

Tad Wieman was an assistant football coach at Michigan from 1921 to 1926 and the head coach from 1927 to 1928.

Tad Wieman told friends that Yost had failed to notify him in advance, and "he was the most surprised man in the country" when Yost made the announcement.

Since the above date Mr Tad Wieman has been in charge as head coach.

At the time of the 1930 United States census, Wieman was living in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with his wife, Margaret, and their two children Robert A Wieman and Helen E Wieman.

Tad Wieman's occupation was listed as a teacher at the university.

In February 1930, the University of Minnesota hired Fritz Crisler as its head football coach, and Tad Wieman was hired as Crisler's first assistant and line coach.

In 1932, Crisler accepted the position of head football coach at Princeton University, and Tad Wieman went with him as an assistant coach.

Tad Wieman was the first Princeton coach to lead the Tigers to four consecutive victories over Yale.

Tad Wieman was an assistant football coach at Columbia University with Lou Little in 1944 and 1945.

From January to April 1946, Tad Wieman was the athletic adviser to the Eighth Army in occupied Japan.

In 1946, Tad Wieman was hired by the University of Maine as its dean of men, director of physical education and athletic director.

Tad Wieman died in December 1971 in Portland at age 75.

Tad Wieman was elected as the President of the American Football Coaches Association in 1947.

In 1962, Tad Wieman received the Amos Alonzo Stagg Award from the American Football Coaches Association.