Alex Agase

Guard, American football head coach

1922 – 2007

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Who was Alex Agase?

Alexander Arrasi Agase was an American football guard and linebacker who was named an All-American three times in college and played on three Cleveland Browns championship teams before becoming head football coach at Northwestern University and Purdue University.

Agase grew up in Illinois and attended the University of Illinois, where he was a standout as a guard starting in 1941. He was named an All-American in 1942. Agase then entered the U.S. Marines during World War II and played a season at Purdue while in training. He was again named an All-American in 1943. After his discharge from the Marines, he came back to Illinois and played a final season in 1946, after which he was named an All-American for a third time. Agase began his professional football career with the Los Angeles Dons of the All-America Football Conference in 1947, but was soon traded to the Chicago Rockets and then the Browns, where he remained until 1952. Cleveland won two AAFC championships and one National Football League championship while Agase was on the team.

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Born
Mar 27, 1922
Chicago
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
  • Purdue University
  • Evanston Township High School
Died
May 3, 2007
Tarpon Springs

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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