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Who was the first Wisconsin coach to have a winning record? (Factoid 575)

Date: 8/11/15
Herb Alward Wisconsin Football Coach
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Coach Herb Alward was the first Wisconsin coach to have a winning record. Coach Alward would coach his first and only season in 1891. His team went 3-1-1. During that season they lost to Minnesota 12-26, tied Northwestern 0-0, and defeated Northwestern 40-0 in the last game of the season. (They played Northwestern twice that year.)

Before Alward was coach, he played for Harvard in 1890. Coach Alward died of typhoid fever in 1897.


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