About Eolus Von Rettig
Lived 1908 – 1983 (aged 74). Eolus Von Rettig was a coach and american football coach.
Eolus Von Rettig (July 6, 1908 – April 29, 1983) was an American college football and college baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Texas College in Tyler, Texas from 1936 to 1941, Texas State University for Negroes—now known as Texas Southern University—in Houston from 1946 to 1948, and Wiley College in Marshall, Texas from 1949 to 1951. He later served as an assistant coach at Prairie View A&M University.
Career Rettig played football at Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio as a guard. He served as line coach at Texas College from 1934 to 1935 under Ace Mumford before succeeding Mumford as head football coach in 1936. Rettig also played football at Bishop College in Marshall, Texas in the late 1920s when Mumford was head coach there.
Death Rettig died on April 29, 1983, at St. Paul's Hospital in Dallas.
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Who was Eolus Von Rettig?
American football coach
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Eolus Von Rettig was born on 6 July 1908.
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Eolus Von Rettig died on 29 April 1983 in Dallas.
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Eolus Von Rettig was a coach and american football coach.
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