Jack Wink

Jack Wink

Wink from 1944 Michiganensian
Sport(s) Football
Playing career
1942 Wisconsin
1943 Michigan
19461947 Wisconsin
Position(s) Quarterback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
19491951 Wayne State (NE)
19521955 Stout / Stout State
19561964 St. Cloud State
Head coaching record
Overall 52749

Jack S. Wink is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Nebraska State Teachers College at Wayne, now Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska, from 1949 to 1951, at The Stout Institute, renamed at Stout State College in 1955 and now known as the University of Wisconsin–Stout, from 1952 to 1955, and at St. Cloud State College, now St. Cloud State University, from 1956 to 1964, compiling a career college football record of 52749. Wink also coached the men's ice hockey team at St. Cloud State, from 1956 to 1968.

Playing career

A native of Milwaukee, Wink began his college football playing career as a quarterback at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1942. The following season, he played at the University of Michigan as a marine trainee. Wink started two games as quarterback for the 1943 Michigan Wolverines.[1] After World War II, he returned to Wisconsin, lettering for the Badgers in 1946 and 1947. As a senior in 1947, he was named the team's honorary captain at a postseason banquet.[2]

References

  1. "1943 Football Team". University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
  2. AP (December 10, 1947). "Jack Wink is Named Captain of the Badgers". Telegraph Herald. Retrieved June 15, 2011.
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