Alex Agase

Alex Agase

Agase on a 1950 Bowman football card
No. 35, 62
Position:	Guard, linebacker
Personal information
Date of birth:	(1922-03-27)March 27, 1922
Place of birth:	Chicago
Date of death:	May 3, 2007(2007-05-03) (aged 85)
Place of death:	Tarpon Springs, Florida
Height:	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight:	212 lb (96 kg)
Career information
High school:	Evanston (IL) Township
College:	Illinois
NFL Draft:	1944 / Round: 8 / Pick: 71
Career history
As player:
Los Angeles Dons (1947) Chicago Rockets (1947) Cleveland Browns (1948–1951) Baltimore Colts (1953)
As coach:
Dallas Texans, Line (1952) Iowa State, Line (1954–1955) Northwestern, Asst. (1956–1963) Northwestern, HC (1964–1972) Purdue, HC (1973–1976) Michigan, Asst. (1982–1987)
As administrator:
Eastern Michigan, AD (1977–1982)
Career highlights and awards
NFL Champion (1950) 2× AAFC Champion (1948, 1949) 3× All-American (1942, 1943, 1946) Football Writers Association of America Coach of the Year (1970) Walter Camp Foundation All-Century team (1989) University of Illinois All-Century team (1990)
Career NFL statistics as of 1953
Games: 70 Interceptions: 8 Player stats at NFL.com
Player stats at PFR
College Football Hall of Fame

Alexander Arrasi Agase (March 27, 1922 – May 3, 2007) was an American football guard and linebacker who was named an All-American three times in college and played on three Cleveland Browns championship teams before becoming head football coach at Northwestern University and Purdue University.

Agase grew up in Illinois and attended the University of Illinois, where he was a standout as a guard starting in 1941. He was named an All-American in 1942. Agase then entered the U.S. Marines during World War II and played a season at Purdue while in training. He was again named an All-American in 1943. After his discharge from the Marines, he came back to Illinois and played a final season in 1946, after which he was named an All-American for a third time. Agase began his professional football career with the Los Angeles Dons of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) in 1947, but was soon traded to the Chicago Rockets and then the Browns, where he remained until 1952. Cleveland won two AAFC championships and one National Football League championship while Agase was on the team. After retiring from football, Agase was worked as an assistant coach for the Dallas Texans and, after a brief return to playing for the Baltimore Colts, Iowa State University. He was hired as an assistant at Northwestern in 1956 under head coach Ara Parseghian.