Sidney Warren Nichols (April 15, 1895 – March 23, 1971) 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 ...

player and coach. He was a starting

quarterback The quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB"), colloquially known as the "signal caller", is a position in gridiron football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive platoon and mostly line up directly behind the offensive line. In modern Ame ...

at the

University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the University ...

in 1917.

Head coaching record

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* 1895 births 1971 deaths American football quarterbacks Illinois Fighting Illini football players Occidental Tigers football coaches Rock Island Independents players People from Creston, Iowa Sportspeople from Des Moines, Iowa Coaches of American football from Iowa Players of American football from Des Moines, Iowa {{Amfoot-bio-stub