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Bill Ingram

Bill Ingram

American football player and coach (1898–1943)


William Austin Ingram (June 14, 1898 – June 2, 1943) was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at The College of William & Mary (1922), Indiana University (1923–1925), the United States Naval Academy (1926–1930), and the University of California, Berkeley (1931–1934), compiling a career record of 75–42–9. Ingram's 1926 Navy team went 9–0–1 and was recognized as a national champion by the Boand System and the Houlgate System. Ingram was also known by the nickname "Navy Bill", due to his background at Annapolis.[1] He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1973, and he died in his sleep while serving as a Major in the Marine Corps.[2]

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From 1923 to 1925, he guided Indiana to a 10–12–1 record. At Navy he posted a 32–13–4 record. These totals included his 1926 team, which finished with a 9–0–1 record. He coached at California and won 27 games in four years. During the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike, Ingram organized his Cal players to work as strikebreakers.[1]

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References

  1. Hochschild, Adam (29 March 2016). Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 9780547973180. p. 8: At Berkeley, hundreds of professors and students, like Merriman, ferverntly backed the strikers, while the football coach—William Ingram, an Annapolis graduate known as 'Navy Bill'—organized players to work as strikebreakers.

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