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4/22/2010 - FOOTBALL Bemidji State loses former head football coach |
Adams’s professional career spanned more than four decades and included stints as a coach, teacher and athletic administrator at the high school and collegiate levels.
A native of Kimberly, Wis., Adams graduated from Lawrence University in 1955, where he played linebacker and running back on the Vikings’ football team.
After graduation, Adams spent more than a decade coaching football, basketball, wrestling, baseball and track and field as well as serving as director of athletics at the prep level.
Adams then moved on to Drake University and the collegiate ranks in 1969. He served as an assistant coach at DU until 1973. From there Adams made the move to Chadron State, where he was head coach for six seasons and compiled an overall record of 31-17. Adams then moved east to pursue the task of rebuilding the football program at Bemidji State in 1979. He coached four seasons at BSU before taking a job as defensive coordinator at University of Dubuque in 1982, where he also served as the school’s head baseball coach.
Adams returned to the high school ranks in 1985 and worked as the assistant principal, community education director and director of athletics at Unity High School. He then was hired as the principal and director of athletics at Pittsville High School from 1990 until his retirement in 1994.
Even after retirement, Adams continued to coach. He was an assistant football coach at Carroll University from 1995-98 and returned to his Alma Mater, Lawrence, in 1999 to mentor the defensive line.
Adams is survived by his wife, Inge, and two children.
Services are set for Saturday, May 1, at Mount Olive Lutheran Church, 211 Main St., Mukwonago, Wis. The visitation will be from 9-11 a.m. with the service at 11 a.m.
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