Bump Elliott

Bump Elliott biographer, author Neal Rozendaal joins us to discuss his book on Bump Elliott and his 5 different capacities in the Rose bowl games.

Elliott’s five roles in Rose Bowl history are discussed in the book but Neal shares them with us in the podcast above along with his long football career in different capacities. Bump Elliot was a part of teams from Iowa, Purdue, and Michigan. The Rose Bowl Hall of Fame placed Bump into their halls of honor for all of the time the man spent inside the Rose Bowl working on multiple New Years’ Days.

1. Bump played in the 1948 Rose Bowl with his brother Pete Elliott under Fritz Crisler in a 49-0 romp over USC (Bump caught three passes for 61 yards and a touchdown)
2. He was an assistant coach with Iowa under Coach Forest Evashevski in the 1957 game when the Hawkeyes beat Oregon State 35–19
3. Bump was the head coach at Michigan and led the Wolverines to the 1965 Rose Bowl Game, over Oregon State, 34–7.
4. Coach Elliott acted as the Michigan asssitant Athletic Director under Don Canham in the 1970 Rose Bowl. In fact Bump was the major connection in the hring of Bo Schembechler.
5. Elliott was the athletic director at the University of Iowa and he attended the Rose Bowl with the team in 1982 in this capacity.

Bump Elliott is an intriguing and very repetitive figure in Rose Bowl history. Heck he was a legend in football history in general, so much, so that author Neal Rozendaal wrote a book on Bump, titled aptly as Bump Elliott: The Best of College Athletics.

Get a copy of Neal’s book and enjoy Mr. Elliott’s football journey through it and the podcast interview above with Neal.

A Very Special thanks to information obtained from Neal Rozendaal and his great book Bump Elliott: The Best of College Athletics.

Banner photo is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons of the Photograph of Bump Elliott, Pete Elliott, Fritz Crisler and Bruce Hilkene celebrating Michigan's 1947 Big Nine championship, taken by an unknown.