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Robert Duax
Robert John Duax, Sr. (October 26, 1919 – December 18, 1997) was an athlete, coach, and politician. He was an All-Chicago football player and a star halfback for the St. Joseph's College football team. From the early 1940s through the 1990s, he was a coach, instructor and administrator, including 16 years as the head basketball coach and nine years as the athletic director, at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. He earned a reputation as a basketball innovator and strategist and founded the St. Ambrose women's basketball team, serving as its first head coach from 1975 to 1977. He also held several political offices in the 1960s and 1970s, including service as mayor of Davenport from 1976 to 1977.
==Early years==
Duax was born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, in 1919. He moved to Chicago in his youth where his father, Charles Duax, was employed as a butter and food products salesman.〔Census Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois; Roll: 434; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 2500; Image: 907.0; FHL microfilm: 2340169. Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census (on-line ).〕 Duax attended St. Phillip's School in Chicago.〔 He was an All-Chicago halfback in high school, and his high school coach called him "the best football player, pound for pound, I've ever coached."
Duax next attended St. Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Indiana. He was a triple-threat halfback for the St. Joseph's football team and the team's leading scorer in 1939 and was considered one of the best punters in Indiana. He was reported to be a "fast and shifty" back around whom St. Joseph's built their attack.〔
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