Bob Zuppke
7/02/1879 – 12/22/1957
University of Illinois football coach, 1913 – 1941
National titles 1914, 1919, 1923 and 1927
Big Ten Championships 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1921, 1923, 1927 and 1928
Inventor of the huddle
Inventor of the flea flicker
Coach of George Halas
Coach of Red Grange
“Freshmen, my advice is, don’t drink the linement.”
Zuppke of Illinois: A football coach
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
