Gustave Herman Ferbert , nicknamed Dutch, was first a player and then the head coach for the University of Michigan American football team. In 1898, his Michigan team went 100 and won the first Western Conference championship in the schools history. He left the University of Michigan in 1900 and spent nine years prospecting for gold in Alaska, finally striking it rich off claims he discovered in 1908 and 1909.
Ferbert was born in 1873 to John C. Ferbert and Caroline Stlbbinger at Cleveland, Ohio.
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