John Rupert "Choppy" Rhodes (February 6, 1903 – May 24, 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 with ...

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 tea ...

player,

track Track or Tracks may refer to: Routes or imprints * Ancient trackway, any track or trail whose origin is lost in antiquity * Animal track, imprints left on surfaces that an animal walks across * Desire path, a line worn by people taking the shorte ...

athlete, coach of football and baseball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the

University of Wyoming The University of Wyoming (UW) is a public land-grant research university in Laramie, Wyoming. It was founded in March 1886, four years before the territory was admitted as the 44th state, and opened in September 1887. The University of Wyoming ...

from 1930 to 1932, compiling a record of 10–15–2. He was also Wyoming's

athletic director An athletic director (commonly "athletics director" or "AD") is an administrator at many American clubs or institutions, such as colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, who oversees the work of coaches and ...

at the time. Rhodes played football and baseball and ran track at 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 ...

. He was the head baseball coach at his alma mater, Nebraska, from 1929 to 1930, tallying a mark of 21–12–1. Rhodes was a native of

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. He coached

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at the Blair High School in

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in 1938, 1941, and 1942. Rhodes died of a heart ailment on May 24, 1951, at his home in

Spalding, Nebraska Spalding is a village in Greeley County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 487 at the 2010 census. History Spalding was originally called Halifax, and under the latter name was founded in 1875 by a colony of Irish Catholics. It was re ...

Head coaching record

College football

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