Ted Bank
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1920 Michigan football team portrait
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| Sport(s) | Football, baseball, boxing |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born | December 13, 1897 |
| Died | June 3, 1986 (aged 88) Indian Wells, California |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan, 1923 |
| Playing career | |
| 1919–1921 | Michigan |
| Position(s) | Quarterback, halfback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1923–? | Patterson HS (LA) |
| 1929–1934 | Tulane (backs) |
| 1935–1940 | Idaho |
| Baseball | |
| 1930, 1932 | Tulane |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1935–1941 | Idaho |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 18–33–3 (college football) 0–17 (baseball) |
| Ted Bank | |
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| Allegiance |
 United States
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| Service/branch |
 United States Army United States Army Reserve
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| Years of service | 1916–1945 |
| Rank |
 Colonel
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| Unit | Infantry; Athletics & Recreation |
| Battles/wars | World War I, World War II |
Theodore Paul "Ted" Bank (December 13, 1897 – June 3, 1986) was an American college football player, coach and athletic director.
Bank was a starting quarterback for Fielding Yost's 1920 and 1921 Wolverine football teams. He graduated from the university in 1923 and began a career in coaching, beginning at the high school level in Louisiana. From 1929 to 1935, he was an assistant football coach at Tulane University. He also served as the head baseball coach at Tulane in 1930 and 1932, in addition to serving as the university's boxing coach. In 1935, Bank was hired as the head football coach and athletic director at the University of Idaho, positions which he held until January 1941. From February 1941 to January 1945, Bank again served in the U.S. Army, as chief of the Army's athletics and recreation branch for three years and attained the rank of colonel. In January 1945, Bank became president of the Athletic Institute of America, a non-profit organization based in Chicago serving to promote physical fitness and athletics in the U.S., and served in that office through 1966.
Bank attended high school in Flint, Michigan, and after graduating, he enlisted in the U.S. Army at age 18. He served on the Mexican border and played quarterback for an Army football team. When the U.S. entered World War I in 1917, Bank served with the 32nd Infantry Division of the American Expeditionary Force in France. He saw combat in several battles and was gassed and suffered a knee injury from shrapnel. He was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant at age 20, although "a special dispensation had to be secured to make him an officer because he was under 21." Before the end of the war, he was again promoted to first lieutenant. Bank was decorated by both the French and British governments, receiving the French Croix de Guerre. After the war, Bank served with the Army of Occupation on the Rhine for more than six months.
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