Kit Cartwright

{{Short description|American football player and coach (born 1954)}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1954|1|4}}

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| player_years1 = 1975

| player_team1 = Bowling Green

| player_positions = Defensive back

| coach_years1 = 1976

| coach_team1 = Toledo (GA)

| coach_years2 = 1977

| coach_team2 = Ohio Wesleyan (DC)

| coach_years3 = 1978

| coach_team3 = Penn State (part-time assistant)

| coach_years4 = 1979–1982

| coach_team4 = Bowling Green (DB)

| coach_years5 = 1983–1985

| coach_team5 = Bowling Green (WR/DB)

| coach_years6 = 1987–1988

| coach_team6 = Eastern Illinois (OC)

| coach_years7 = 1989–1992

| coach_team7 = Colorado State (assistant)

| coach_years8 = 1993

| coach_team8 = Ball State (OC)

| coach_years9 = 1994–1995

| coach_team9 = Michigan (QB/WR)

| coach_years10 = 1996

| coach_team10 = Indiana (PCG)

| coach_years11 = 1998–2001

| coach_team11 = Butler (OC)

| coach_years12 = 2002–2005

| coach_team12 = Butler

| coach_years13 = 2006

| coach_team13 = DePauw (OC)

| coach_years14 = 2007–2008

| coach_team14 = Winnipeg Blue Bombers (OC/QB)

| coach_years15 = 2009

| coach_team15 = Indiana (QC)

| coach_years16 = 2010

| coach_team16 = Indiana (DFO)

| overall_record = 7–36

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Kit Cartwright (born January 4, 1954) is former American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Butler University from 2002 to 2005. After compiling a 7–36 record at Butler, he was fired as the school's head football coach, effective at the end of the 2005 season.{{cite news|title=Butler fires football coach Kit Cartwright|newspaper=Tuscaloosa News|date=October 26, 2005|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5MoyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wqcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4391,3921230&dq=kit-cartwright&hl=en}}{{cite news|title=Winless Butler to get new coach for 2006|newspaper=The Free Lance Star|date=October 26, 2005|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZTEzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1AgGAAAAIBAJ&pg=3580,7748370&dq=kit-cartwright&hl=en}}

Cartwright is a native of Toledo, Ohio. He attended Bowling Green State University, where he played defensive back as a walk-on under head coach Don Nehlen. He graduated from Bowling Green in 1976. Since that time, Cartwright has been a football coach at 13 different universities, including Toledo (graduate assistant, 1976), Ohio Wesleyan (defensive coordinator, 1977), Penn State (part-time assistant, 1978), Bowling Green (defensive secondary coach, 1979-1982),{{cite news|title=BG Grad Cartwright Returns As Grid Aide|newspaper=Toledo Blade|date=March 23, 1979|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vDBPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kAIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1325,5133968&dq=kit-cartwright&hl=en}} Purdue (defensive secondary and receivers coach, 1983–1986), Eastern Illinois (offensive coordinator, 1987–1988), Colorado State (1989–1992), Ball State (offensive coordinator, 1993), Michigan (quarterback and receivers coach, 1994–1995),{{cite news|title=Cartwright moves up|newspaper=Toledo Blade|date=October 5, 1994|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lUYxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fQMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1862,1460254&dq=kit-cartwright&hl=en}} and Indiana (passing game coordinator, 1996), Butler (offensive coordinator, 1998–2001; head coach, 2002–2005), and DePauw (offensive coordinator, 2006). He was the position coach for future NFL quarterbacks Tom Brady and Brian Griese while at Michigan. He was also the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the Canadian Football League from 2007 to 2008.{{cite web|title=Kit Cartwright Bio|publisher=Indiana University|url=http://www.iuhoosiers.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/cartwright_kit00.html|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130126182913/http://www.iuhoosiers.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/cartwright_kit00.html|archivedate=January 26, 2013}}{{cite web|title=Kit Cartwright Bio |publisher=Butler University |url=http://www.butlersports.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/cartwright_kit00.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305060410/http://www.butlersports.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/cartwright_kit00.html |archivedate=March 5, 2016 }}{{cite news|title=Veteran Coach Kit Cartwright to Assist Tiger Football Program|date=July 10, 2006|publisher=DePauw University|url=http://www.depauw.edu/news-media/latest-news/details/17786/}}{{cite news|title=Kit Cartwright named new Butler football coach|newspaper=The Daily Sentinel|date=July 25, 2002|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eOdDAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tK8MAAAAIBAJ&pg=5942,1458894&dq=kit-cartwright&hl=en}}{{cite news|author=Kirk Penton|title=Berry gets his man: Turned Blue job down last year|publisher=Canoe Slam Sports|date=March 14, 2007|url=http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Winnipeg/2007/03/14/3749121-sun.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115061839/http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Winnipeg/2007/03/14/3749121-sun.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=January 15, 2013}}