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Sam Voinoff

American football and golf coach (1907–1989)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ28065950 ↗
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Samuel Voinoff (February 22, 1907 – November 17, 1989) was an American college football and golf coach at Purdue University. He coached Purdue to 10 Big Ten titles and one NCAA national championship in golf. He was the president of the Golf Coaches Association of America from 1962 to 1964 and 1970 to 1971. He is a 1995 Boilermaker Hall of Fame inductee.

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The public source identifies “Sam Voinoff” as american football and golf coach (1907–1989). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Voinoff, American and football.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1907, 1989, 1962, 1964—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1907-02-22. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Voinoff, American and football providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q28065950. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1907, 1989, 1962 and 1964.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sam Voinoff” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.