He played for Michigan State from 1948 to 1952, and was drafted to the
Green Bay Packers. He was forced to leave early in the season as he was called to active duty in the
U.S. Army for the
Korean War. After the war, he was a coach for football and wrestling at two high schools in Michigan,
Dartmouth College, then the
United States Coast Guard Academy in
New London, Connecticut. In 1962 he was appointed a line coach of the Coast Guard Academy football team under Head Coach
Otto Graham, and was the head coach himself in the 1966 and 1967 seasons. His record as football head coach was 0–16. He was also an assistant track and field coach from 1959 to 1961, the head coach of wrestling from 1960 to 1965, assistant director of athletics from 1966 to 1980, and athletic department business manager from 1968 to 1980. In 1976 he was inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame at Wyoming Seminary in 1976 and the Coast Guard Academy in 1979. In 1988, he was named "Man of the Year" by New England College Wrestling. He retired in 1984, at which point he was at the rank of
captain. ==References==