Elmer W. Holm (January 14, 1906 – October 8, 1992) was an

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player and coach of football and

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. He was the 21st head football coach at

Washburn University Washburn University (WU) is a public university in Topeka, Kansas, United States. It offers undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as professional programs in law and business. Washburn has 550 faculty members, who teach more than 6,100 u ...

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, serving for six seasons, from 1936 to 1941, and compiling a record of 23–31–3. Holm was also the head basketball coach at Washburn from 1933 to 1936, tallying a mark of 21–36. Following his tenure at Washburn, Holm spent the 1942 season as an assistant football coach at his alma mater, the

University of Nebraska–Lincoln The University of Nebraska–Lincoln (Nebraska, NU, or UNL) is a public land-grant research university in Lincoln, Nebraska. Chartered in 1869 by the Nebraska Legislature as part of the Morrill Act of 1862, the school was known as the Universit ...

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