Biographical details | |
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Born | St. Bonifacius, Minnesota, U.S. | July 28, 1912
Died | May 14, 1991 Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. | (aged 78)
Playing career | |
1933–1935 | Minnesota |
Position(s) | Guard |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
Football | |
1936–1942 | Amherst (line) |
1943 | Minnesota (ends) |
1944–1945 | Colgate (line) |
1946 | Franklin & Marshall (line) |
1947–1948 | Lafayette (line) |
1949–1955 | Wisconsin (line) |
1956–1966 | Wisconsin |
Basketball | |
1946–1947 | Franklin & Marshall |
Baseball | |
1947 | Franklin & Marshall |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
1967–1969 | Wisconsin (assistant AD) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 52–45–6 (football) 7–9 (basketball) 9–5 (baseball) |
Bowls | 0–2 |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
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Milton Caspar Bruhn (July 28, 1912 – May 14, 1991) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1956 to 1966, compiling a record of 52–45–6 (.534). Bruhn led the Wisconsin Badgers to two outright Big Ten Conference championships in 1959 and 1962. His teams had two straight seven-win seasons, in 1958 and 1959, and an 8–2 record in 1962, with the two losses coming at Ohio State, 14–7, and against #1 USC, 42–37, in the 1963 Rose Bowl. Wisconsin ended the 1962 season with a #2 ranking, which remain the highest AP Poll and UPI/Coaches' Poll season-ending rankings for the Wisconsin football program in the history of these polls.