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Eugene Oberst
American football player and coach, track and field athlete and coach, basketball coach, college athletics administrator (1901-1991) · United States · On the map · Athletes · Died at 89
Eugene G. Oberst was an American football player, track and field athlete, coach of football and basketball, and college athletics administrator. Oberst was born the youngest of eleven children.
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- Wayne Millner Also at Notre Dame Fighting Irish football
- August Desch Also at Notre Dame Fighting Irish football
George Trafton Also at Notre Dame Fighting Irish football
Vincent F. Harrington Also at Notre Dame Fighting Irish football- Steve Sylvester Also at Notre Dame Fighting Irish football
- Bronko Nagurski Jr. Also at Notre Dame Fighting Irish football
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About this person
A native of Owensboro, Kentucky, he played football at the University of Notre Dame in the 1920s under coach Knute Rockne, and competed in track and field as a javelin thrower. He won the Olympic bronze medal at the 1924 Summer Games in Paris. Oberst served as the head football coach at Washington and Lee University (1929-1930), Canisius College (1931-1932), and John Carroll University (1946).