UW Athletic Hall of Fame

Arthur Mansfield

  • Class
  • Induction
    1998
  • Sport(s)
    Baseball, Football
Arthur Mansfield
  • Lettered at UW in football twice and baseball three times plus won the All-University heavyweight boxing crown twice
  • Captain of the 1929 baseball team
  • Served as head coach of the baseball team at UW from 1940-70, and posted an overall mark of 441-349
  • Two of his teams - 1946 and 1950 - won the Big Ten baseball championship
  • The 1950 squad was 19-9 and placed third in the national collegiate tournament
  • Coached the Wisconsin 150-pound football team to shares of the conference title in 1947 and 1948
  • Elected president of the American Association of College Baseball Coaches in 1949 and was inducted into that organization's Hall of Fame in 1970
  • A 1972 inductee into the Madison Pen & Mike Club-Bowman Sports Foundation Hall of Fame
  • Member of the U.S. Olympic baseball committee in 1956
  • Played semi-pro baseball with the Madison Blues and professional baseball in the New York Giants organization in the 1930s
  • Joined the UW physical education faculty in 1934, and taught at Wisconsin for 36 years
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