Adam Walsh (football coach)

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name= Adam Walsh

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DateOfBirth= December 4, 1901
Birthplace= Churchville, Iowa
DateOfDeath= death date and age|1985|01|13|1901|12|4
PlaceOfDeath= Westwood, California
Position= Center
College= Notre Dame
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Awards=1945 NFL Coach of the Year
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Record=34-15-6 (College)
16-5-1 (NFL)
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coachingyears=1935-1942
1945
1946
coachingteams=Bowdoin College
Cleveland Rams
Los Angeles Rams
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years=1922-1924
teams=Notre Dame

Adam Walsh Born in Churchville, Iowa, on December 4, 1901, Adam Walsh was an outstanding athlete at Hollywood High School in California, and earned varsity letters in basketball, track, and football at the University of Notre Dame. Adam was an All-American center and captain of the 1924 Notre Dame football team under Coach Knute Rockne – ‘the Four Horsemen’ of the backfield and ‘the Seven Mules’ of the offensive line – that captured the imagination of the nation by completing and undefeated season with a win against Stanford in the Rose Bowl.

Captain Walsh played every minute of the Army game in 1924 with two broken hands (for 58 minutes of the game) and never missed a single snap of the ball, was involved in 75 percent of the tackles on defense, and intercepted a pass in the final minutes of the game to preserve a Notre Dame victory. He remains the offensive center on the All Time Notre Dame Team. Adam served as head coach and athletic director at Santa Clara University, line coach at Yale, and then as a member of the coaching staff at Harvard for a year. In 1935 he accepted the head coaching position at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Though Bowdoin had been winless the prior year, Coach Walsh began his twenty-year coaching career at the College with a state championship. Adam’s teams won or tied for the Maine championship in seven of his first eight years at Bowdoin.

Bowdoin suspended the 1943, 1944, and 1945 and Adam returned to Notre Dame as a line coach. In 1945 he led the Cleveland Rams then in Cleveland, to the championship of the National Football League and was named NFL Coach of the Year. He returned to Bowdoin after two years with the Rams and a 16-5-1 NFL coaching record. Between 1947 and 1958 Adam’s teams would win outright or share the state championship four more times.

In the years that followed, Adam served two terms in the Maine House of Representatives and was appointed the U.S. Marshal for Maine under presidents Kennedy and Johnson, building on his long-standing record of public service. Many honors would follow: induction into the National Football Hall of Fame, the Helms Hall of Fame and the Maine Sports Hall of Fame; being named All-Time Southern California High School Team, the Notre Dame All-Time Team, and the All-Time Rose Bowl Team.