Bob Burke
American football coach
Robert E. Burke (born 1942) is a retired American football coach. He served as the head football coach at American International College in Springfield, Massachusetts from 1976 to 1982.
Burke played college football at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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