Mike Brumbelow
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| Sport(s) | Football, basketball |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
July 13, 1906 Jacksboro, Texas |
| Died | August 11, 1977 (aged 71) El Paso, Texas |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1927–1929 | TCU |
| Position(s) | Guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1936–1941 | TCU (assistant) |
| 1946–1948 | Ole Miss (assistant) |
| 1949 | SMU (scout) |
| 1950–1956 | Texas Western |
| Basketball | |
| 1937–1941 | TCU |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1950–1959 | Texas Western |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 46–24–3 (football) 22–64 (basketball) |
| Bowls | 2–1 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| Football 1 Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1956) |
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Lester Michael "Mike" Brumbelow (July 13, 1906 – August 11, 1977) was an American football and basketball player and coach. He played football and basketball for Texas Christian University from 1927 to 1929 and was the captain and most valuable player of the TCU Horned Frogs undefeated 1929 football team that won the school's first Southwest Conference championship. He later served as an assistant football coach and head basketball coach at TCU from 1936 to 1941. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and attained the rank of lieutenant commander. After the war, he served as an assistant football coach at the University of Mississippi from 1946 to 1948. From 1950 to 1956 he was he head football coach at Texas Western College, now the University of Texas at El Paso; he also served as the school's athletic director from 1950 to 1959.
Brumbelow grew up in Jacksboro, Texas. He was the son of William Brumbelow and Alice Helton Brumbelow, a ranching and farming family in Jack County, Texas.
Brumbelow attended TCU. He played at the guard position from 1927 to 1929 and was selected as the captain and most valuable player on TCU's undefeated 1929 football team that won the school's first Southwest Conference championship. Brumbelow was selected as an All-American in 1929 and an All-Southwest Conference player in both 1928 and 1929. He also won the 1929 Rogers Trophy Award and played in the 1930 East–West Shrine Game. Brumbelow also played basketball at TCU and received two varsity letters in that sport. He was inducted into the TCU Lettermen's Association Hall of Fame in 1970.
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