Merwin Mitterwallner

{{Short description|American football player (1897–1974)}}

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| name = Merwin Mitterwallner

| image = Merwin Mitterwallner.jpg

| caption = Merwin Mitterwallner, 1926

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| position = Guard

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1897|7|4}}

| birth_place = Trumansburg, New York, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1974|12|1|1897|7|4}}

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| height_ft = 5

| height_in = 10

| weight_lbs = 230{{cite news|title=Giant Guard Returns to Play With Illinois|newspaper=The Minneapolis Morning Tribune|date=September 22, 1926|page=18|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104251165/mitterwallner/|via=Newspapers.com}}

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| college = Illinois

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• National champion (1927)
• First-team All-American (1925)
• Second-team All-Big Ten (1925)

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Merwin Mitterwallner (July 4, 1897 – December 1, 1974), sometimes known as Bubbles Mitterwallner, was an American football player. Mitterwallner was born in Trumansburg, New York. He played college football at the guard position at both the University of Denver and the University of Illinois.{{cite news|title=Mitterwallner Greyhound in Elephant Game|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=October 12, 1927|page=25|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104251373/mitterwallner/|via=Newspapers.com}} While playing for Illinois, he was a key blocker for Red Grange and was selected by Herbert Reed as a first-team player on the 1925 College Football All-America Team.{{Cite web |date=November 2008 |title=All-America Addendum |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv12/CFHSNv12n1j.pdf |publisher=College Football Historical Society Newsletter |accessdate=January 20, 2015}} He also received third-team All-American honors from the International News Service and the Chicago Daily News.{{Cite news |date=July 4, 2009 |title=Legends, lists & lore: Bubbles Mitterwallner |work=The News-Gazette |url=http://www.news-gazette.com/sports/illini-sports/football/2009-07-04/legends-lists-lore-bubbles-mitterwallner.html}}