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Ralph Thacker

American football coach (1880–1962)

PersonDied aged 81humanQ7288154

Also known as Ralph William Thacker

Born: September 13, 1880
Died: April 12, 1962
Birthplace: Michigan
Place of death: Lincoln
Citizenship: United States
Occupation: basketball coach
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1.Stated in College Basketball at Sports-Reference.comRetrieved 2022-04-24
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, American football coach
Education: University of Olivet

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Ralph William Thacker was an American college football and college basketball coach and athletic administrator. He served as the head football coach at Central Michigan Normal School—now known as Central Michigan University—in 1907, Nebraska State Normal School—now known as Peru State College—from 1911 to 1912, the University of Wyoming from 1913 to 1914, Lake Forest College in 1915, and Macalester College from 1922 to 1924, compiling a career college football head coaching record of 17–33–6. Thacker was also the head basketball coach at Peru Normal from 1911 to 1913, Wyoming from 1913 to 1915, and Lake Forest for the 1915–16 season, and Macalester for the 1916–1917 season. He was the athletic director at Macalester from 1922 to 1926.

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Sex or gender: male
Given name: Ralph
Sport: basketball
Place of burial: Lincoln Memorial Park
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1.Stated in Find a Grave
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6 identifiers linking Ralph Thacker across the web's reference databases

College Football Data Warehouse ID2317
Find a Grave memorial ID223786378
Freebase ID/m/03d98bx
NCAA Statistics coach ID12998
Prabook ID1933752
Sports-Reference.com college basketball coach IDralph-thacker-1

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