Louis F. Zarza
American football player and coach (1909–1990)
Biographical details | |
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Born | (1909-08-15)August 15, 1909 Groveton, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Died | April 13, 1990(1990-04-13) (aged 80) Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. |
Playing career | |
1932–1935 | Michigan State |
Position(s) | End |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1936 | St. Viator (assistant) |
1937 | St. Viator |
1938 | Washington HS (IN) |
1939–1942 | Arizona (line) |
1943 | Norman NAS (assistant) |
1946 | Michigan State (assistant) |
1947 | Santa Clara (line) |
1948 | Detroit Lions (line) |
1949–1954 | Wayne State (MI) |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 26–31–3 (college) |
Louis F. Zarza (August 15, 1909 – April 13, 1990) was an American football player and coach.[1] He served as the head football coach St. Viator College Bourbonnais, Illinois in 1927 and at Wayne University—now known as Wayne State University—in Detroit, Michigan from 1949 to 1954, compiling a career college football coaching record of 26–31–3. Zarza went to Wayne after working for one season as the line coach for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL).[2]
Head coaching record
College
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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St. Viator Irish (Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) (1937) | |||||||||
1937 | St. Viator | 6–2–1 | 2–0–1 | 4th | |||||
St. Viator: | 6–2–1 | 2–0–1 | |||||||
Wayne Tartars (Independent) (1949–1954) | |||||||||
1949 | Wayne | 3–5 | |||||||
1950 | Wayne | 2–7 | |||||||
1951 | Wayne | 5–4 | |||||||
1952 | Wayne | 4–4 | |||||||
1953 | Wayne | 3–4–1 | |||||||
1954 | Wayne | 3–5–1 | |||||||
Wayne: | 20–29–2 | ||||||||
Total: | 26–31–3 |
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- No coach (1900–1906)
- Walter Eckersall (1907–1909)
- John L. Marks (1910)
- Albert G. Quille (1911)
- Elias Kelly (1912)
- August N. St. Aubin (1913)
- August N. St. Aubin (1915)
- Paul J. Schissler (1916)
- Emmett Keefe (1917)
- Tom Finnegan (1919–1921)
- Jack Crangle (1922–1923)
- Ralph Glaze (1924–1925)
- Sam J. McAllister (1926–1930)
- Bucky Dahman (1931)
- John Corcoran (1932–1933)
- Ray Murphy (1934)
- John J. McNamara (1935–1936)
- Louis F. Zarza (1937)