Harry Kipke

Harry George Kipke was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He was the head football coach at Michigan State College in 1928 and at the University of Michigan from 1929 to 1937, compiling a career record of 49305. During his nineyear tenure as head coach at Michigan, Kipkes teams compiled a 46264 record, won four conference titles, and captured two national championships in 1932 and 1933. He is one of only three coaches, along with Fielding H. Yost and Bo Schembechler, in Michigan football history to direct teams to four consecutive conference championships. Kipke was also the head baseball coach at the University of Missouri for one season 1925 while he was an assistant football coach at the school. He was inducted into of the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1958.

Kipke was born in Lansing, Michigan, in March 1899. His father, Charles W. Kipke, emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1872. His mother, Minnie Kipke, emigrated from Germany in 1888. Kipke had two older sisters , an older brother , and three younger brothers . At the time of the 1910 United States Census, the family was living in Lansing, and the father was working as an assembler in a motor works. Kipke attended Lansing High School. By 1920, Kipkes father had died, and he was living with his mother and siblings in Lansing.

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