Ray Eliot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ray Eliot

American football and baseball player and coach, college athletics administrator

Date of Birth: 03-Jun-1905

Place of Birth: Brighton, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 24-Feb-1980

Profession: head coach

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Raymond Eliot Nusspickel (June 13, 1905 – February 24, 1980) was an American football and baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator.
He served as the head football coach Illinois College from 1933 to 1936 and at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1942 to 1959, compiling a career college football record of 102–82–13.
Eliot was also the head baseball coach at Illinois College from 1933 to 1937.
His Illinois Fighting Illini football teams won three Big Ten Conference championships (1946, 1951, and 1953) and two Rose Bowls (1947 and 1952).
Eliot, who spent almost his entire career at the University of Illinois—he was a student athlete, an assistant football coach, head football coach, associate athletic director, and finally the interim athletic director for the university—was nicknamed "Mr.
Illini." He attended the University of Illinois, played as a guard on the football team in 1930 and 1931, and was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity.
He died of an apparent heart attack on February 24, 1980 in Urbana, Illinois.
Eliot is remembered by the Illinois High School Football Coaches Association through its Ray Eliot award.