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Moose Krause

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Edward Walter Moose Krause was an American multi-sport athlete, coach and college athletics administrator, born Edward Kriaučiūnas in Chicago in 1913 to Lithuanian immigrant parents. At the University of Notre Dame he lettered in four sports, competing in track, baseball, football and basketball, and was a three-time consensus All-American in basketball in 1932, 1933 and 1934. He then coached basketball at Saint Mary's College in Winona, at Holy Cross and at Notre Dame, with a career college record of 155 wins and 114 losses, and served as Notre Dame athletic director from 1949 to 1981. He served in the Marines in the Second World War and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1976. He died in South Bend in 1992.

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1913 1
Gender
Male 1
Medals or Titles Band
2-4 1
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was an American football, basketball, and baseball player
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1. Moose Krause (Wikipedia)
  • Lead, birth
    Edward Walter "Moose" Krause (born Edward Walter Kriaučiūnas; Lithuanian: Edvardas Valteris Kriaučiūnas; February 2, 1913, December 11, 1992)
  • Gender as stated
    He lettered in four sports at the University of Notre Dame
  • Lead, halls of fame
    Krause was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1976 and the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006
  • Lead, nationality
    was an American football, basketball, and baseball player
  • Plays: Basketball, Sport as stated
    he was a three-time consensus All-American in basketball
  • Plays: American Football, Sport as stated
    Krause played football for the Fighting Irish under Hunk Anderson
  • Plays: Baseball, Sport as stated
    was an American football, basketball, and baseball player
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