Albert Berg
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Albert Berg was the first football coach at Purdue. Berg graduated from Princeton University and became Purdue University's head coach in 1887 at the age of 23.
Berg's team had just one week of practice before their first and only game, a 48-6 loss to Butler University.
Berg was both deaf and mute. His deafness was caused by childhood spinal meningitis, and his muteness grew out of shyness and embarrassment over his inability to hear. He communicated mostly by writing.
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