Jack Mollenkopf, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jack Mollenkopf

American football player and coach

Date of Birth: 24-Nov-1905

Place of Birth: Convoy, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 04-Dec-1975

Profession: head coach, American football player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Jack Mollenkopf

  • Kenneth Webster "Jack" Mollenkopf (November 24, 1903 – December 4, 1975) was the head football coach at Purdue University from 1956 until 1969.
  • Mollenkopf was also an assistant coach at Purdue from 1947 to 1955 under Stu Holcomb. Mollenkopf was a successful football coach competing at high school and college levels and is widely acknowledged as the greatest football coach in Purdue's history.
  • While coaching high school, he led Toledo Waite to three national championships.
  • Mollenkopf is Purdue's all-time leader in Big Ten Conference wins (58) and conference winning percentage (.637).
  • His 84 wins at Purdue placed him first on the school's all-time wins list until Joe Tiller passed him in 2008, and he ranks fourth in overall winning percentage (.670).
  • Mollenkopf's Boilermakers were nationally ranked for 80 weeks, the most under any Purdue head coach, and captured the #1 spot the first five weeks of the 1968 season. On January 2, 1967, Mollenkopf coached the school's first appearance in the Rose Bowl, leading Purdue to a 14–13 victory over USC.
  • Against Purdue's in-state rivals, Mollenkopf tallied an 11–2–1 record versus Indiana and a 10–4 mark against Notre Dame.
  • From 1966 to 1969, a Purdue player finished in the top three in balloting for the Heisman Trophy: quarterback Bob Griese was second in 1966, halfback Leroy Keyes placed third in 1967 and second in 1968, and quarterback Mike Phipps finished as runner-up in 1969.
  • Mollenkopf's inaugural season in 1956 was the only losing campaign of his tenure as head coach at Purdue. A prominent figure on the sidelines of postseason all-star games, Mollenkopf served as head coach of the 1958, 1959, and 1960 Blue–Gray Football Classics; the 1962 and 1963 East–West Shrine Games; the 1964, 1967, and 1970 Hula Bowls; the 1968 All-American Bowl; and the 1969 North–South Shrine Game.
  • Mollenkopf was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1988; the Bowling Green State University Hall of Fame in 1965 and the Indiana Football Hall of Fame in 1975.
  • In 1994, Coach Mollenkopf was inducted as a member of the inaugural class of the Purdue Intercollegiate Athletic Hall of Fame. Mollenkopf died of cancer on December 4, 1975, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota .

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