Heartley Anderson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American football player and coach
Date of Birth: 22-Sep-1898
Place of Birth: Michigan, United States
Date of Death: 24-Apr-1978
Profession: American football player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Heartley Anderson
- Heartley William "Hunk" Anderson (September 22, 1898 – April 24, 1978) was an American football player and coach.
- He served as the head football coach at the Saint Louis University (1928–1929), University of Notre Dame (1931–1933), and North Carolina State University (1934–1936), compiling a career college football record of 34–34–4.
- From 1942 to 1945, Anderson was the head coach for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL), tallying a mark of 24–12 and winning the 1943 NFL Championship. From 1918 to 1921, Anderson played as a guard for the Notre Dame football team, under new head coach Knute Rockne.
- From 1922 to 1926, he played professionally for the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago Bears.
- Anderson played in 39 career games while starting in 32 of them.
- In 1939, he was an assistant coach for the Detroit Lions under Gus Henderson. Born in Calumet, Michigan, on the Keweenaw Peninsula in the Upper Peninsula, Anderson attended Calumet High School.
- He was 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) and weighed 170 lb (77 kg).
- Anderson was named to the National Football League 1920s All-Decade Team, and is only one of two players on the list not in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
- He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1974. A head coach at Saint Louis for two years, he returned to Notre Dame as an assistant under Rockne in 1930 and the Irish won all ten games.
- The following spring, Rockne was killed in a plane crash, and Anderson was promoted to head coach ten days later.
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