Norman G. Wann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Norman G. Wann

American football, basketball, baseball, and tennis coach

Date of Birth: 08-Jul-1882

Place of Birth: Silverwood, Indiana, United States

Date of Death: 23-Jul-1957

Profession: basketball coach, athletics competitor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Norman G. Wann

  • Norman Gillespie "Happy" Wann (July 8, 1882 – July 23, 1957) was an American football player, track athlete, coach of multiple sports, and college athletics administrator.
  • He served as the head football coach at Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas (1908–1909), Millikin College (1915–1917, 1919–1922), Earlham College (1923–1924), Ball Teachers College, Eastern Division, Indiana State Normal Schoolβ€”now Ball State University (1926–1927), and the College of the City of Detroitβ€”now Wayne State University (1929–1931), compiling a career college football record of 74–40–10.
  • Wann was also the head basketball coach at Ottawa (1908–1910), Millikin (1915–1918, 1919–1923), and Earlham (1923–1925), amassing a career college basketball record of 128–79.
  • In addition, he was the head baseball coach at Ottawa (1909–1910), Millikin (1916–1918, 1920–1921), Ball Teachers College (1927), tallying a career college baseball mark of 43–39. Wann attended Earlham College, where he played football as a lineman and ran track.
  • He left campus in 1908 one credit short of his BBS degree, which he did not receive until 1922.
  • Earlham served with the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War I.
  • In 1929, he earned a master's degree in physical education from the University of Wisconsin.
  • After his retirement from coaching, he moved to Eagle Harbor Township, Michigan.
  • He died there on July 23, 1957.
  • Three years earlier, in 1954, he was inducted into Earlham's Athletic Hall of Fame.
  • In 1986, he was inducted into the Wayne State University Athletics Hall of Fame.

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