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Ned Alger, former Ute coach, administrator, dies
6/16/2009 12:00 AM | General
June 16, 2009
SALT LAKE CITY -
Ned Alger, a former athletics administrator and coach at the University of Utah passed away Monday morning.
Alger, 80, was on a family trip in Cabo San Lucas when he fell on a staircase and sustained head trauma on Thursday, June 11. He was transported to an El Paso, Texas, hospital where he remained until his death.
Alger was a Ute assistant football coach from 1957-66, working under head coaches Jack Curtice, Ray Nagel and Mike Giddings. He became an administrative assistant in 1969, a position he held until he was promoted to assistant athletics director in 1972. Alger assisted athletic directors Bud Jack, Arnie Ferrin, Jim Copeland and Chris Hill during his tenure as an administrator. Hill elevated him to associate A.D. in 1991. Alger retired from the U. in 1993.
Before joining the Utah staff, he coached at Pleasant Grove High for four years, going 31-4-3. As an undergraduate, he played football at BYU from 1947-50, lettering in 1950.
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