He Mixes Art Football

Among the lofty eminences Robert Carl Zuppke, University of Illinois football coach, has occupied, one of the first was a scaffold high over Broadway! He had finished the University of Wisconsin in 1905 and was making his way as a sign painter while he studied pictures in the Metropolitan Museum.

The other eminences are better marked: his Oak Park high school football teams, 1910 to the first public exhibits of his own paintings in and 1913; the days of "Red" Grange at Illinois finally the present gridiron season, because it 25th consecutive year as Illinois coach. On this anniversary, he looks back on a record of seven. Ten championships in 16 years. At the easel, he earned distinction for his spontaneous, bold, pastels and oils.

Bob Zuppke was born in Berlin, German years ago. Like many good Germans, Herr Zuppke and wife immigrated to Milwaukee. Their son then just two years old. Sauerkraut and weiners couldn't boost young Bob over 150 pounds; he made the Wisconsin varsity, but he proudly broke his collar bone trying. He joined Kappa Sigma. His coaching post was at Muskegon, Mich.

Absent-minded, absorbed in work, Coach Zuppke believes strong hands, taught rhythm on the have the lightest touch on the canvas.