Bob Nulf
Robert W. Nulf was an American football, basketball, baseball, and track and field coach, athletics administrator, and educator. He served as the head football coach at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan for four seasons, from 1942 to 1948, compiling a record of 18–10–4. Kalamazoo did not field a football team from 1943 to 1945.
Nulf attended Central High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where lettered in football, basketball, and baseball, and track. He played college football at Butler University as a halfback in 1927. The following year, he transferred to the University of Illinois.
After graduating from Illinois, Nulf began his coaching career, in 1929, when he was hired as director of physical education and coach of football, basketball, and baseball at Norwich High School in Norwich, New York. He resigned his post at Norwich after a year to return to Fort Wayne as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Central High School. After four years at Central, Nulf was appointed head coach of football and basketball at Fort Wayne's North Side High School. He remained at North Side for eight years, leading his football teams to a record of 54–9–6 and four city championships. His basketball teams tallied a mark of 119–47, won one city title outright, and shared two others. In 1942, Nulf was hired as the athletic director and head coach of football, basketball, and track at Kalamazoo College. He led the Kalamazoo Hornets football program to consecutive shared Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association titles, in 1946 and 1947. Nulf resigned from Kalamazoo College in 1949 to return to North Side High School at football coach.
Nulf retired from coach in 1952, when he went into sales with the Shakespeare Bait & Tackle Co. of Kalamazoo, for which he was a sale representative for 15 years in northern Ohio. He died on June 30, 1985, at his home in Fort Wayne.