THE OFFICIAL ATHLETICS SITE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-WHITEWATER

During the five year reign of Coach William E. Schreiber, the Whitewater sports picture enjoyed some of its finest days.  It included several championships in various sports and several high State Normal conference finishes.  Schreiber was coach of the 1914 State Normal Conference football champions, which held a 50-year reunion last fall on the Whitewater campus.  Schreiber was an athlete in his own right, being a member of the Madison Central high school football team that won the United States high school championship in Detroit, Michigan, on Christmas Day, 1897.  Following his high school days, Schreiber joined the football squad of the University of Wisconsin at Madison and was a member of the 1901 team that captured the "Big Ten" championship.  Following graduation from the medical school of the University of Wisconsin in 1904, he joined the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.  After five years in New York, both attending school and working as a staff member, Schreiber was named head of the Physical Education department of the Oklahoma State University at Stillwater.  After a five year term at Stillwater, Schreiber accepted an invitation from Whitewater regent Bert Hamilton to become coach at the Normal School.  Departing from a five year stay at Whitewater, Schreiber accepted the position of head of the Physical Education Department at the Montana State University at Missoula.  During his 25 years on the faculty at Missoula, Schreiber built and expanded the department.  He was responsible for establishing the physical education departments for men and women, the department of athletics, the department of health, and the physical education department.  In addition to his other work, Schreiber was responsible for running the University hospital and the annual interscholastic track meet, which attracted about one thousand participants each year.  During his tenure he was a member of the faculty committee on athletics and was the official representative to the Northwest and Pacific Coast conferences.  In 1961, Schreiber sold his holdings in Montana and established his home in Mesa, Arizona.