Dean Rockwell
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Dean Rockwell | |
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Born | Cass County, Michigan, U.S. | May 25, 1912
Died | August 8, 2005 Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. | (aged 93)
Dean Ladrath Rockwell (May 25, 1912 – August 8, 2005)
Biography
After graduating from
On May 17, 1942, Rockwell enlisted in the
After the war, Rockwell studied at the University of Michigan. He went on to coach football at Albion College.
Rockwell also coached at the national and international levels, chairing the US National AAU Wrestling Committee from 1966 to 1968, serving on three Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling committees, and coaching the US Greco-Roman wrestling team at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
In May 1995, Rockwell received the "Master of Wrestling Award" from Wrestling USA magazine. In 2000, the nation's largest wrestling library, the new AAU
Rockwell was a member of the Phi Sigma Epsilon fraternity while a student at Eastern Michigan, and assisted with the fraternity's reformation as Phi Sigma Phi when most of its chapters merged with Phi Sigma Kappa.
Head coaching record
College football
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Albion Britons (Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association ) (1947)
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1947 | Albion | 0–8 | 0–5 | 6th | |||||
Albion: | 0–8 | 0–5 | |||||||
Total: | 0–8 |
References
- ^ SSDI Search results 11 November 2010
- ^ "Full Text Citations For Award of The Navy Cross To U.S. Navy Personnel, World War II" homeofheroes.com Archived 2018-07-08 at the Wayback Machine 11 November 2010
Further reading
- Wrestling USA, May 30, Issue 1995 - Volume 30, Number 12