Alton S. Kircher (December 5, 1909 – November 1, 2004)[1] was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach.
He was a star athlete at Gladstone High School and then attended Michigan State College in East Lansing,[3] where he earned nine letters in football, basketball, and baseball for the Spartans.
[1][4] During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army and was wounded during the Normandy invasion, earning a Purple Heart.
Evashevski left for Iowa of the Big Ten Conference in January 1952 and Kircher planned to go east with him,[12] but was promoted and stayed on the Palouse as the 20th head coach of the Cougar football program.
[4][13] Kircher's Cougars were 4–6 in each of his first three seasons, but fell to 1–7–2 in 1955 and he was fired days after the final game, a loss to rival Washington.