Walter E. Marks

American football, basketball, baseball player and coach, college athletics administrator (1905-1992)

PersonDied aged 87humanQ7964723

Born: February 16, 1905
Died: November 24, 1992
Birthplace: Ottumwa
Place of death: Terre Haute
Citizenship: United States
Occupation: basketball coach
, American football player
Education: University of Chicago
Employer: Indiana State University

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Walter E. Marks was an American football, basketball, and baseball player, coach, college athletics administrator, sports official, and university instructor. Marks played football, basketball, and baseball at the University of Chicago. Between 1927 and 1955 he served as the head football, basketball, baseball, and golf coach at Indiana State University, with hiatuses from 1930 to 1931, when he earned a master's degree at Indiana University, and from 1942 to 1945, when he served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Marks was best known for his football and baseball coaching career(s); though his tenure as basketball coach was highlighted by the Sycamores' run to the semifinals of the 1936 U.S. Olympic Trials.

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