Arthur Henry "Cotton" Berndt (January 26, 1884 – c. 1951) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

, and

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...

player and coach. He was a multi-sport start at

Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington (IU Bloomington, Indiana University, IU, or simply Indiana) is a public research university in Bloomington, Indiana. It is the flagship campus of Indiana University and, with over 40,000 students, its largest ca ...

in the late 1900s, serving as captain of the football, basketball and baseball teams. He was the head coach for the

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team for the 1913–14 and 1914–15 seasons, compiling a record of 6–21. He remained employed by Indiana University in 1942.Draft registration card for Arthur Henry Berndt, born January 26, 1884. Ancestry.com. U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 atabase on-line National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; State Headquarters: Indiana.

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