Gene Asprey
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- Title:
- Student-Athlete
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- Previous College Sports Played:
- Football, Men's Basketball
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- Graduating Class:
- 1947
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- Induction Class:
- 1982
Bio
Gene Asprey '47 participated in football, and basketball for Morningside, and later served as an assistant football coach for the Maroons. He quarterbacked the 1946 football squad which compiled a 3-5-1 record. Asprey scored the winning touchdown on a 60-yard scamper as Morningside defeated North Dakota 41-39 that season.
Before college, he served as a Lieutenant in the Marine Corps during World War II. Asprey joined the faculty at the University of Iowa in 1959 as a Professor of Physical Education until his retirement in 1991.