Who was the first Wisconsin coach to win a conference championship? (Factoid 576)
Date:
8/12/15
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Coach Philip King won the Western Conference in 1986. His team went 7-1-1 that year. Their only blemishes that year were a 6-6 tie with Northwestern and an 8-18 loss to Carlisle.
Coach King was the first Wisconsin coach to coach for any length of time; he coached the Badgers from 1896 to 1902 as well as in 1905. His record at Wisconsin was 66–11–1. Coach King won the Western Conference three times, in 1896, 1897, and 1901.
He is in the College Football Hall of Fame more as a player, having been a three-time All-American while playing for Princeton. (Learn more via this link --->
http://www.footballfoundation.org/Programs/CollegeFootballHallofFame/SearchDetail.aspx?id=90002.)
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