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1923–1926
  
Name
  
Harry Ockerman

Position(s)
  
Tackle (football)

1926–1928
  
1925–1927
  

Sport(s)
  
Football, basketball, baseball

Born
  
December 20, 1902 (
1902-12-20
)

1927–1934
  
Role
  
Died
  
1940, Arizona, United States

Harry N. Ockerman (December 20, 1902 – September 1979) was American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Bowling Green State University from 1935 to 1940 and at Michigan State Normal College—now known as Eastern Michigan University—from 1949 to 1951, compiling a career college football record of 27–38–9. Ockerman was also the head basketball coach at Michigan State Normal from 1932 to 1935, tallying a mark of 34–16, and the head baseball coach at the school in 1929 and from 1932 to 1934, amassing a record of 18–12.

Michigan State Normal football

In 1951, Ockerman's second, and final, year coaching the MSNC Hurons, the press reported rumors that the football players had been "doped" with novocain to allow them to play through injuries. Joseph McCulloch, in his fourth decade as MSNC's athletic director, denied the allegation, telling reporters, "We want to know who started these rumors."

References

Harry Ockerman Wikipedia


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