Biographical details | |
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Born | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | May 30, 1905
Died | November 18, 1961 Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S. | (aged 56)
Playing career | |
Football | |
1928–1929 | Nebraska |
Basketball | |
1927–1930 | Nebraska |
Position(s) | End (football) |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
? | Montana (assistant) |
1937–1942 | Nebraska (assistant) |
1943–1944 | Nebraska |
Basketball | |
1932–1937 | Montana |
1940–1945 | Nebraska |
Baseball | |
1942 | Nebraska |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
1942–1947 | Nebraska |
1953–1954 | Nebraska (Acting AD) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 4–12 (football) 81–125 (basketball) 3–11 (baseball) |
Adolph J. Lewandowski (May 30, 1905 – November 18, 1961) was an American football and basketball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln from 1943 to 1944, compiling a record of 4–12. Lewandowski was the head basketball coach at the University of Montana from 1932 to 1937 and at Nebraska from 1940 to 1945, amassing a career college basketball record of 81–125. He was also the head baseball coach at Nebraska for one season in 1942, tallying a mark of 3–1.
In 1961, he died of a heart ailment at the age of 56.[1]