Ike J. Armstrong was an American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the University of Utah

University of Utah

The University of Utah, also known as the U or the U of U, is a public, coeducational research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest...

 from 1925 to 1949, compiling a record of 141–55–15. Under Armstrong, Utah won 13 conference championships, seven in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference

Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference

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 and six in the Mountain States Conference. Armstrong's 25-year tenure is the longest of any Utah Utes football

Utah Utes football

The Utah Utes football program is a college football team that currently competes in the Pacific-12 Conference of the Football Bowl Subdivision of NCAA Division I and represents the University of Utah. The Utah college football program began in 1892 and has played home games at Rice–Eccles...

 head coach and his 141 wins are the most in program history. Armstrong also coached Utah's basketball

Basketball

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 and track

Track and field

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 teams. He attended Drake University

Drake University

Drake University is a private, co-educational university located in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. The institution offers a number of undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as professional programs in law and pharmacy. Today, Drake is one of the twenty-five oldest law schools in the country....

 where he played college football

College football

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 as a fullback

Fullback (American football)

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. From 1950 to 1963, he served the athletic director

Athletic director

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 at the University of Minnesota. Armstrong was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame

College Football Hall of Fame

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 as a coach in 1957. He died at the age of 88 of pneumonia at the Flagship Convalescent Home in Corona Del Mar, California on September 4, 1983.

Football

External links

• Ike Armstrong at College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com