Bob Ingalls
{{Short description|American football player and coach (1919–1970)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}}
{{Infobox NFL biography
| name = Bob Ingalls
| image = Bob Ingalls.jpg
| caption = Ingalls from 1946 Cornhusker
| number = 53
| position = Center
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1919|1|17|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Marblehead, Massachusetts, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1970|4|8|1919|1|17}}
| death_place = Willimantic, Connecticut, U.S.
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 3
| weight_lb = 200
| high_school = Marblehead
The Kiski School
| college = Michigan
| draftyear = 1942
| draftround = 18
| draftpick = 169
| pastteams =
- Green Bay Packers ({{NFL Year|1942}})
| pastcoaching =
- Lincoln AAF (1944)
(Head coach) - Nebraska (1945)
(Centers) - Kansas (1946–1947)
(Line) - Navy (1948–1949)
(Line) - Connecticut (1950–1951)
(Line) - Connecticut (1952–1963)
(Head coach)
| highlights =
- First-team All-Big Ten (1941)
| statlabel1 = Games played–started
| statvalue1 = 10–6
| statlabel2 = Interceptions
| statvalue2 = 1
| statlabel3 = Touchdowns
| statvalue3 = 1
| pfr = IngaBo20
}}
Donald Robert Ingalls (January 17, 1919 – April 8, 1970) was an American football player and coach. He played college football at the University of Michigan and was chosen by conference coaches as a second-team player on the Associated Press All-Big Ten Conference team in 1940.{{cite news|title=Harmon and Evashevski Repeat on AP's All-Big Ten: Michigan Stars Named for Third Year in a Row|author=Earl Hilligan|newspaper=St. Petersburg Times (AP story)|date=November 24, 1940|page=12|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19401125&id=-jRPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Y00DAAAAIBAJ&pg=7034,7963950}} He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the 18th round of the 1942 NFL draft and played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) for the Packers for one season, in 1942.{{cite web | title = Bob Ingalls Statistics | work = Pro Football Reference | url = https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/I/IngaBo20.htm | accessdate = January 7, 2009 }} Ingalls was the head coach of the 1944 Lincoln Army Air Field Wings football team.{{cite news |author= |title=Wings open against Peru Navy 11 Friday |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lincoln-star/122650384/ |newspaper=Sunday Journal and Star |location=Lincoln, Nebraska |date=September 16, 1944 |page=2B |access-date=April 10, 2023 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} He served as the head football coach at the University of Connecticut from 1952 to 1963, compiling a record of 49–54–3.
Ingalls died on April 8, 1970, at Windham Community Hospital in Willimantic, Connecticut.{{cite news |title=Robert Ingalls, 51, Connecticut Coach |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1970/04/09/354827912.pdf |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 9, 1970 |accessdate=June 28, 2011}}
Head coaching record
{{CFB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | team = | conf = | bowl = | poll = no }}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Lincoln Army Air Field Wings
| conf = Independent
| startyear = 1944
| endyear = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1944
| name = Lincoln AAF
| overall = 6–1
| conference =
| confstanding =
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Lincoln AAF
| overall = 6–1
| confrecord =
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Connecticut Huskies
| conf = Yankee Conference
| startyear = 1952
| endyear = 1963
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1952
| name = Connecticut
| overall = 5–3
| conference = 3–1
| confstanding = T–1st
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1953
| name = Connecticut
| overall = 3–4–1
| conference = 2–1–1
| confstanding = 3rd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1954
| name = Connecticut
| overall = 1–8
| conference = 0–4
| confstanding = 6th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1955
| name = Connecticut
| overall = 4–4
| conference = 2–2
| confstanding = T–3rd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1956
| name = Connecticut
| overall = 6–2–1
| conference = 3–0–1
| confstanding = 1st
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1957
| name = Connecticut
| overall = 5–4–1
| conference = 3–0–1
| confstanding = T–1st
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1958
| name = Connecticut
| overall = 7–3
| conference = 4–0
| confstanding = 1st
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1959
| name = Connecticut
| overall = 6–3
| conference = 4–0
| confstanding = 1st
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1960
| name = Connecticut
| overall = 5–4
| conference = 3–1
| confstanding = T–1st
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1961
| name = Connecticut
| overall = 2–7
| conference = 2–2
| confstanding = 3rd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1962
| name = Connecticut
| overall = 3–6
| conference = 2–2
| confstanding = 3rd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1963
| name = Connecticut
| overall = 2–6
| conference = 1–3
| confstanding = 5th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Connecticut
| overall = 49–54–3
| confrecord = 29–16–3
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall = 55–55–3
| bowls = no
| poll = no
| polltype =
}}
References
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{{Connecticut Huskies football coach navbox}}
{{Green Bay Packers 1942 NFL draft picks}}
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