Milt Bruhn

Milt Bruhn
Milt Bruhn
Sport(s) Football, basketball, baseball
Biographical details
Born July 28, 1912(1912-07-28)
Place of birth St. Bonifacius, Minnesota
Died May 14, 1991(1991-05-14) (aged 78)
Place of death Madison, Wisconsin
Playing career
19331935 Minnesota
Position(s) Guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
19361942
1943
19441945
1946
19471948
19491955
19561966

Basketball
19461947

Baseball
1947

Amherst (line)
Minnesota (ends)
Colgate (line)
Franklin & Marshall (line)
Lafayette (line)
Wisconsin (line)
Wisconsin


Franklin & Marshall


Franklin & Marshall
Head coaching record
Overall 52456 (football)
79 (basketball)
95 (baseball)
Bowls 02
Statistics
College Football Data Warehouse
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
2 Big Ten (1959, 1962)

Milton "Milt" Bruhn (July 28, 1912May 14, 1991) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at the University of WisconsinMadison from 1956 to 1966, compiling a record of 52456 (.534). Bruhn led the Wisconsin Badgers to two outright Big Ten Conference championships in 1959 and 1962, despite having a 153 record in his first season. His teams had two straight seven-win seasons, in 1958 and 1959, and an 82 record in 1962, with the two losses coming at Ohio State, 147, and against #1 ranked USC, 4237, in the Rose Bowl.

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Playing career

Bruhn attended high school in Mound, Minnesota, where he played football and basketball. He enrolled at the University of Minnesota in 1932. Bruhn played left guard for the Gopher teams that went undefeated and won Big Ten Conference championships in 1934 and 1935. Bruhn also played catcher on the baseball team at Minnesota that won the Big Ten Conference championship in 1935. He captained the baseball team in his senior year.[1]

Coaching career

Following his graduation from Minnesota in 1936, Bruhn went to Amherst College as football line coach and freshman coach in basketball and baseball. He remained there until 1943 when he returned to his alma mater, Minnesota, as ends coach. He joined the Colgate University football staff as line coach in 1944, then moved on to Franklin & Marshall College as line coach, in addition to being head baseball and basketball coach. He went to Lafayette College in 1947 as line coach under Ivy Williamson and then served as line coach on Williamson's staff at Wisconsin from 1949 to 1955. He succeeded Williamson as head football coach, when the latter moved to the position of athletic director following the death of Guy Sundt. After his tenure as head football coach at Wisconsin, Bruhn remained at Wisconsin as assistant athletic director from 1967 to 1969.

Head coaching record

Football

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs Coaches# AP°
Wisconsin Badgers (Big Ten Conference) (19561966)
1956 Wisconsin 153 043 9th
1957 Wisconsin 63 43 T4th 14 19
1958 Wisconsin 711 511 2nd 6 7
1959 Wisconsin 73 52 1st L Rose 6 6
1960 Wisconsin 45 25 9th
1961 Wisconsin 63 43 5th 18
1962 Wisconsin 82 61 1st L Rose 2 2
1963 Wisconsin 54 34 T5th
1964 Wisconsin 36 25 T7th
1965 Wisconsin 271 25 T7th
1966 Wisconsin 361 241 T7th
Wisconsin: 52456 35375
Total: 52456
      National Championship         Conference Title         Conference Division Title
#Rankings from final Coaches' Poll.
°Rankings from final AP Poll.

References

  1. ^ "Wisconsin football facts 1966". University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. p. 8. http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/UW.Football1966. Retrieved July 13, 2010. 

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