Carl Eggebrecht

Eggebrecht was born on November 9, 1893, in Wausau, Wisconsin.[1] There he graduated from Wausau High School, where he was a member of the football, basketball, and track teams.

Eggebrecht first attended college at Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, where he played football and basketball.[2][3] He then moved on to River Falls Normal School—now known as University of Wisconsin–River Falls—where he was a member of the varsity football and basketball teams before graduating in 1916. He played for the football team in the fall of 1915 and the basketball team that winter. Both squads won the Inter-Normal Athletic Conference of Wisconsin title in their respective sports.[4]

Eggebrecht spent the 1916–17 academic year as the principal of a grade school in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. He resigned from that position in 1917 to attend Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts.[5] Eggebrecht played as a fullback on Springfield's football team that fall.[6] He also played as a center on Springfield’s basketball team and was elected as team captain for the 1918–19 season.[7]

Eggebrecht began his coaching career at the college level in 1920, when we was hired as physical director and athletic coach at Lombard College in Galesburg, Illinois.[8]

Eggebrecht moved to Marshall High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1924, where he coached football and baseball for three seasons and basketball for two.[9] He resigned from his post as Marshall High School in the summer of 1927 and was hired as coach and athletic director at Stevens Point Normal School—now known as the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point.[10] In June 1935, Eggebrecht was appointed the athletic director at Midland College—now known as Midland University—in Fremont, Nebraska.[11]

Eggebrecht later worked as an automobile dealer in Wausau. He died on July 1, 1958, at a hospital in Madison, Wisconsin.[1]

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