Furman Nuss
head coach · American football coach
- February 2, 1895
- February 5, 1986 · Washington
- 91 years
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Furman Nuss, 91, American football and basketball coach.
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|Furman Leon "Fitz" Nuss (February 2, 1895 – February 5, 1986) was an American college football and college basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at Alderson–Broaddus College—now known as Alderson Broaddus University—in Philippi, West Virginia for one season, in 1924, compiling a record of 3–4–2.
Nuss graduated from Washington & Jefferson College in 1917.
Later life
In his later life, Nuss operated a tire shop and worked in the gas drilling industry. He died on February 5, 1986, at the Hubert Lane Health Care Center in Washington, Pennsylvania, after a long illness.
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