Born in Pittsburgh, PA, his Uncle brought him to Milwaukee and enrolled him in Pio Nono High School where he played football, basketball, and baseball, earning all-conference and WCIAA all-state honors in basketball for the 1932-33 season. In 1933, he was recruited by Loyola Marymount University in California, he played 4 years of football and 3 years of hockey. As the goalkeeper, he helped the Loyola Hockey team to a 47-5-2 record and two Hoover Cup Championships. He graduated in 1937 with a B.S. in Philosophy and English.[1] He was also cast as a hockey player in the 1937 film The Game That Kills.[2]
From 1938 -1941, he taught and established the athletic program at St. Benedict the Moor School in Milwaukee, coaching football, and basketball.[3]
From 1941 – 1947, he taught and coached football, hockey, boxing, and baseball at Messmer High School (Milwaukee).[3]
In 1947 -1948, he coached football, hockey, boxing, and baseball at St. Francis Minor Seminary (now Saint Thomas More High School (Milwaukee)).[3]
At St. Catherine's High School (Racine, Wisconsin), from 1948 to 1961, Ed was the head coach for football (80-31-6) and baseball, and the assistant basketball coach. In that time, his football teams produce 6 conference championships and went undefeated for 3 seasons straight (1955,1956,1957), which set a city record for championships in-a-row and winning streak (24 games).[3][4][5]
In 1961, he coached football at Casimir Pulaski High School in Milwaukee. The next year, he moved to Cudahy High School, coaching football and volleyball until 1969, retiring from there in 1983.[3]
In the summers, he taught at Knute Rockne summer camp in northern Wisconsin.
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