Walter Milligan
Milligan during his football head coaching tenure at Pittsburgh
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| Sport(s) | Football, basketball |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born | May 27, 1904 |
| Died | May 8th 1978 |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1929–1931 | Pittsburgh |
| Position(s) | Guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| Football | |
| 1934–1938 | Pittsburgh (freshmen) |
| 1939–1940 | Florida (assistant) |
| 1941–1945 | Tulsa (assistant) |
| 1946 | Pittsburgh (line) |
| 1947–1949 | Pittsburgh |
| 1950 | USC (assistant) |
| 1951–1952 | Purdue (assistant) |
| 1953–1955 | Nebraska (assistant) |
| Basketball | |
| 1942–1943 | Tulsa |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 13–14 (football) 0–10 (basketball) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Awards | |
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United Press "Coach of the Week" Aliquippa Sports Hall of Fame |
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Walter Scott "Mike" Milligan (May 27, 1904 – 1978) was an American football player and coach of football and basketball. He served as the head football coach at the University of Pittsburgh from 1947 to 1949 and for one season as the head basketball coach at the University of Tulsa (1942–43).
Milligan played high school football at Aliquippa High School and Kiski School. While at college at the University of Pittsburgh, Milligan played guard from 1929 to 1931 under the school's legendary coach Jock Sutherland. The lightest of Pitt guards in 1930, and listed at a height of 5 feet, 10 inches and weighing 168 pounds, Milligan broke into the lineup at left guard when Hart Morris was injured in an October 11 game at Western Reserve. The teams on which Milligan played while at Pitt were regional powers and nationally regarded. The 1929 Pitt team went undefeated in the regular season and won the Eastern Championship and appeared in the Rose Bowl losing to USC. The loss did not prevent football historian Parke H. Davis from naming Pitt as that season's national champion. The following season, Milligan's first as a regular starter, saw the Panthers go 6–2–1. This was followed by an 8–1 finish in 1931 in which the Panthers recorded six shutouts, including a 40–0 dismantling of Nebraska. That season also saw Pitt defeat Penn State in State College, using only one first-string player, by a score of 41–6 en route to winning the Eastern Championship. These accomplishments would prompt Parke Davis to again name the Panthers national champions. During his summers in college, Milligan worked as a desk sergeant with the Aliquippa Police Department.
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