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Coach Gene Grattan

 
 

 

 
     
 

 
     
  Gene Grattan gained his own wrestling experience at the University of Iowa. He was a San Jose attorney, a very dedicated man, who came to SJSC and worked the team at no renumeration beyond the satisfaction that he gained by piloting the local youths to successful seasons. In his era, the Spartans wrestled many clubs besides collegiate teams. At the height of his program building, however, Grattan was fatally involved in an auto accident in 1940...a tragic loss to the young SJSC program. Grattan coached from 1936 to 1940.