Voigts and Northwestern center Alex Sarkisian kiss the game ball after winning the Rose Bowl in 1949.
Biographical details
Born
(1916-03-29)March 29, 1916 Evanston, Illinois, U.S.
Died
December 7, 2000(2000-12-07) (aged 84) Wilmette, Illinois, U.S.
Playing career
Football
1936–1938
Northwestern
Basketball
1936–1939
Northwestern
Position(s)
Tackle (football)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1939–1940
Illinois Wesleyan (assistant)
1941
Yale (line)
1942–1943
Great Lakes (assistant)
1946
Cleveland Browns (assistant)
1947–1954
Northwestern
Basketball
1939–1941
Illinois Wesleyan
Baseball
1940
Illinois Wesleyan
Head coaching record
Overall
33–39–1 (football) 25–16 (basketball)
Bowls
1–0
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
First-team All-American (1938)
First-team All-Big Ten (1938)
Werner Robert Voigts (March 29, 1916 – December 7, 2000) was an American football and basketball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Northwestern University from 1947 to 1954, compiling a record of 33–39–1. Voigts led the 1948 Northwestern Wildcats team to the Rose Bowl, the first in school history, where they defeated California, 20–14.
Voigts was a native of Evanston, Illinois, where Northwestern's main campus is located. He attended Northwestern and played on the school's football team between 1936 and 1938. In his sophomore year, the Wildcats won the Big Ten Conference, and Voigts was named an All-American tackle. After college, Voigts served as an assistant football coach and head basketball coach at Illinois Wesleyan University before moving briefly to Yale University, where he was a football line coach. He entered the U.S. Navy during World War II in 1942 and was stationed outside of Chicago where he met Paul Brown, the head coach of the base's football team. When Brown became head coach of the Cleveland Browns after the war, he hired Voigts as a tackle coach. After a year with the Browns, Voigts became head coach at Northwestern.
Voigts resigned as Northwestern's head coach in 1955, citing growing criticism of his coaching after a string of losing seasons. He left football but stayed in Evanston, where he ran a real estate business for 30 years. He died in 2000.
33–39–1. Voigts led the 1948 Northwestern Wildcats team to the Rose Bowl, the first in school history, where they defeated California, 20–14. Voigts was a...
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to 1946 before leaving for the Golden Bears. Northwestern head coach BobVoigts was only 33-years-old and had been named an All-American in 1938 playing...
Ten Conference football season. In their fifth year under head coach BobVoigts, the Wildcats compiled a 5–4 record (2–4 in Big Ten, sixth), and were...
points per game), and was ranked No. 17 in the final AP Poll. Tackle BobVoigts was a first-team All-American. Wisconsin fullback Howard Weiss received...
criticism and perceived personal vendettas by Twin Cities sports writers Bob Sansevere, Dan Barreiro, and Patrick Reusse. He threatened to sue the team...
Big Nine Conference football season. In its first year under head coach BobVoigts, the team compiled a 3–6 record (2–4 against Big Nine Conference opponents)...
Ten Conference football season. In their fourth year under head coach BobVoigts, the Wildcats compiled a 6–3 record (3–3 against Big Ten Conference opponents)...
receivers instead of two. The team was led by an All-American tackle BobVoigts, who later succeeded Waldorf in 1947 and won the 1949 Rose Bowl - coaching...
Ten Conference football season. In their seventh year under head coach BobVoigts, the Wildcats compiled a 3–6 record (0–6 against Big Ten Conference opponents)...
Nine Conference football season. In their third year under head coach BobVoigts, the Wildcats compiled a 4–5 record (3–4 against Big Ten Conference opponents)...
Ten Conference football season. In their eighth year under head coach BobVoigts, the Wildcats compiled a 2–7 record (1–5 against Big Ten Conference opponents)...
Ten Conference football season. In their sixth year under head coach BobVoigts, the Wildcats compiled a 2–6–1 record (2–5 against Big Ten Conference...
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1990, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2004, and 2011. He is a two-time winner of the BobVoigts Coach of the Year at Northwestern and the first male coach to win the...
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