Rufus Gilbert

Rufus W. "Lefty" Gilbert (December 8, 1884 – May 29, 1962) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Kalamazoo College in 1905 and from 1907 to 1908), Bradley Polytechnic Institute (now known as Bradley University) from 1909 to 1911, and at Rose Polytechnic Institute (now known as Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology) in 1915 and from 1917 to 1920). Gilbert was also the head basketball coach at Rose Polytechnic from 1913 to 1921, tallying a mark of 39–67. His son, Louis, played college football at the University of Michigan from 1925 to 1927.

Gilbert played high school baseball in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He was appointed as the athletic director at Rose Polytechnic in 1917, and given charge of the football, basketball, baseball, and track teams.

Gilbert was later a geologist. He moved to Grand Junction, Colorado in 1946. He died on May 29, 1962, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction.

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