About Edbert C. Buss
Lived 1884 – 1935 (aged 50–51). Edbert C. Buss was an american football coach.
Edbert Charles Buss (April 25, 1884 – April 11, 1935) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach (1916–1920) and head basketball coach (1916–1921) at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. Buss previously served as the head football coach at Detroit Central High School from 1914 to 1915, where his team was crowned the mythical High School Football National Champion in 1915.
Buss died at the age of 51, on April 11, 1935, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He had undergone surgery for acute appendicitis several days earlier.
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Who was Edbert C. Buss?
American football and basketball coach
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Edbert C. Buss was born in 1884.
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Edbert C. Buss died on 11 April 1935 in Grand Rapids.
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Edbert C. Buss was an american football coach.
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