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Clarence W. "Doc" Spears

Date: 09 15 1932
Description: Portrait of Clarence W. "Doc" Spears, University of Wisconsin football coach, standing on the football field.
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Milt Bruhn, Football Coach

Date: 12 31 1955
Description: University of Wisconsin head football coach, Milt Bruhn, on his first day in office.
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Blackbourn Receives All-Star Award

Date: 09 22 1946
Description: Lisle Blackbourn Jr., former Milwaukee Washington high school star playing for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was awarded a trophy as the most outsta...
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University of Wisconsin Football Team

Date: 09 03 1948
Description: Group portrait of the University of Wisconsin football team. In the back row, left to right, are managers Dick McKillip and Francis Croake; equipment manag...
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University of Wisconsin Football Coach Prospect

Date: 01 20 1949
Description: University of Wisconsin Athletic Director, Harry Stuhldreher, shown with prospect for the head football coach position, George Svendsen. Mr. Stuhldreher re...
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University of Wisconsin Football Coach Prospect

Date: 01 19 1949
Description: Charles "Rip" Engle of Brown University, left, conferring with Dr. Willilam B. Sarles, chairman of the Wisconsin Athletic Board. Engle is being considered ...
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University of Wisconsin Football Coaches

Date: 02 27 1949
Description: From left to right, Paul Shaw, Milt Bruhn, and Bob O'Dell, varsity assistant coaches, stand behind a seated Ivy Williamson, head football coach, while posi...
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Officials Planning the Wisconsin-Navy Football Game

Date: 07 08 1949
Description: Wisconsin athletic director Harry Stuhldreher, with head coach Ivan Williamson, conferring with their counterparts from the United States Naval Academy, Ca...
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Cake from Homecoming Committee

Date: 11 05 1949
Description: After a 14-6 Badger football victory over Northwestern, a crowd of 3,000 fans jammed the North Western Rail Road Station to welcome the team and present th...
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Wisconsin Freshman Football Player of the Year

Date: 11 15 1949
Description: University of Wisconsin head freshman coach George Lanphear (left) recognizes Dave Hansen of Eau Claire as the freshman Player of The Year.
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University of Wisconsin Football Banquet

Date: 11 29 1949
Description: University of Wisconsin football coach Ivy Williamson (center) congratulates Badger stars Ken Huxhold (left) from Kenosha, 1950 team captain, and All-Ameri...
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Big Ten Most Valuable Player Robert Wilson

Date: 02 18 1950
Description: University of Wisconsin football star Captain Robert "Red" Wilson is recognized as the Big Ten Conference "Most Valuable Player" for 1949 and awarded the C...
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Wisconsin Football Team

Date: 10 20 1950
Description: The University of Wisconsin football team boards an airplane taking them to their game at Michigan, played the following day.
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Jack Dempsey Meets U.W. Football Coaches

Date: 01 24 1951
Description: The members of the U.W. football coaching staff are shown meeting with Jack Dempsey, former world's heavyweight boxing champion during a dinner at the Park...
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Coach Milt Bruhn with Eight Football Players

Date: 04 10 1952
Description: Milt Bruhn, line coach for the University of Wisconsin-Madison football team, greeting eight of the team's tackles at the opening of spring practice. These...
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Wisconsin Quarterbacks with Head Coach

Date: 09 01 1953
Description: University of Wisconsin head football coach Ivan Williamson poses with four candidates for quarterback of the 1953 football team. The players are, from lef...
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University of Wisconsin Spring Football Practice

Date: 04 06 1954
Description: Ivan "Ivy" Williamson, Wisconsin's head football coach since 1949, talks with three of his veteran players during the Badgers' spring practice. Left to rig...
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Wisconsin Football Team

Date: 09 01 1954
Description: Group portrait of the 1954 University of Wisconsin football team.
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Wisconsin Football Players Weigh-in

Date: 09 11 1954
Description: University of Wisconsin football captain Gary Messner steps on the scale as coach Ivan Williamson looks on.
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Wisconsin Football Players Weigh-in

Date: 09 11 1954
Description: University of Wisconsin football fullback Alan Ameche stands on a scale and points to his 210-pound weight as coach Ivan Williamson looks on.

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