34 Facts About Ted Bank

Theodore Paul Bank was an American college football player, coach, and.

Ted Bank was a starting quarterback for Fielding Yost's 1920 and 1921 Wolverine football teams.

Ted Bank graduated from the university in 1923 and began a career in coaching, beginning at the high school level in Louisiana.

Ted Bank served as the head baseball coach at Tulane in 1930 and 1932, in addition to serving as the university's boxing coach.

In 1935, Ted Bank was hired as the head football coach and athletic director at the University of Idaho, positions which he held until January 1941.

From February 1941 to January 1945, Ted Bank again served in the US Army, as chief of the Army's athletics and recreation branch for three years and attained the rank of colonel.

In January 1945, Ted Bank became president of the Athletic Institute of America, a non-profit organization based in Chicago serving to promote physical fitness and athletics in the US, and served in that office through 1966.

Ted Bank served on the Mexican border and played quarterback for an Army football team.

Ted Bank saw combat in several battles and was gassed and suffered a knee injury from shrapnel.

In 1920, Bank started three of Michigan's seven games at quarterback.

Ted Bank's generalship was faultless, his open field running was spectacular and above all he kept up the morale of the team in such a fashion that victory was never in doubt.

Ted Bank started four of the team's six games at quarterback and a fifth game at left halfback.

Ted Bank was injured during the 1921 season, and Irwin Uteritz took over as starting quarterback.

Michigan did not lose a game in which Ted Bank played quarterback during the 1920 and 1921 seasons.

Ted Bank was mentioned by Walter Camp for All-American honors after the 1921 season and appeared to be a leading All-American candidate in 1922.

However, a broken foot kept Ted Bank from playing football as a senior.

Several days after sustaining the injury, Ted Bank was married to Madylin Huber of Detroit at the home of his parents.

Ted Bank stood with the aid of crutches during the wedding ceremony.

Ted Bank graduated from the university with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1923.

In 1929, Ted Bank was hired by Bernie Bierman as a football coach at Tulane University in New Orleans.

Ted Bank was the freshman coach under Bierman starting in 1929 and became an assistant coach under Ted Cox starting in 1932.

Ted Bank has been a vital factor in the development of such backfield stars as Nollie Felts, Francis Payne, Red Dawson, Wop Glover, Johnny McDaniel, Joe Loftin and a dozen others.

Ted Bank is the chief scout for Coach Cox and one of the best in the business.

In February 1935, Ted Bank was hired as the head football coach and athletic director at the University of Idaho in Moscow, then a member of the Pacific Coast Conference.

Ted Bank was fired as the Vandals' head football coach in January 1941, part of an upheaval that included the resignation of basketball head coach.

In February 1941, Ted Bank, who had remained in the Army Reserves following his service in World War I, was ordered by the War Department to report for active duty in Washington, DC He was placed in charge of a $3 million program to build field houses and gymnasiums across the country.

In February 1942, Bank was promoted from the rank of major to lieutenant colonel, and he eventually attained the rank of colonel.

Ted Bank was involved in organizing athletics and recreation in the US and in overseas theaters of war.

Ted Bank was the chief of the Army's athletics and recreation branch for three years and in 1944 was named assistant to Maj.

In January 1945, Bank was released from the Army and was appointed as the president of the Athletic Institute of America, a non-profit group headquartered in Chicago and having the purpose of promoting physical fitness through athletics, recreation and research.

In June 1949, Ted Bank received a master's degree in physical education from Springfield College.

In 1951, Bank was the recipient of the Simon A McNeely Honor Award given annually by The Society of State Leaders of Health and Physical Education.

Ted Bank was inducted into the Idaho Athletic Hall of Fame.

Ted Bank died in June 1986 at age 88; he was a resident of Indian Wells, California, at the time of his death.