Eddie Race

Edward Joseph Race (22 October 1914 – 23 May 2005) was an American football coach born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who later moved to Milwaukee. He excelled in sports during his high school years and won multiple basketball honors. In 1933, he was recruited by Loyola Marymount University, where he played football and hockey, helping the hockey team achieve a 47-5-2 record and two Hoover Cup Championships. Race graduated in 1937 with a B.S. in Philosophy and English and was cast as a hockey player in the 1937 film *The Game That Kills*. Race’s coaching career began in 1938 at St. Benedict the Moor School in Milwaukee, where he taught and established the athletic program, coaching football and basketball. From 1941 to 1947, he coached at Messmer High School (Milwaukee), teaching and coaching football, hockey, boxing, and baseball. He later served as head coach at St. Francis Minor Seminary (now Saint Thomas More High School) in Milwaukee from 1947–1948. In 1948, he became the head coach of the Racine Bees, a semi-professional football club. From 1948 to 1961, Race coached football and baseball at St. Catherine’s High School in Racine, Wisconsin, leading his football teams to six Catholic conference championships (1948, '49,'53,'55,'56,'57) and an undefeated streak for three consecutive seasons (1955, 1956, 1957), setting a city record. He also coached at Casimir Pulaski High School in Milwaukee in 1961 and later at Cudahy High School until his retirement in 1983. During summers, he taught at Knute Rockne summer camp in northern ...