conference championships death_date death_place birth_place color nationality article_title fontcolor position championship_list sport birth_date college name
big ten basketball 14 september 1951 champaign , illinois st. louis , missouri #ff 5400 american wally roettger
 # 000044 forward 1923-24 big ten -lrb- basketball -rrb- basketball august 28 , 1902 illinois wally roettger
wally roettger

walter henry roettger -lrb- august 28 , 1902 in st. louis , missouri -- september 14 , 1951 in champaign , illinois -rrb- , was a professional baseball player who was an outfielder in the major leagues from - .
he would play for the st. louis cardinals , cincinnati reds , new york giants , and pittsburgh pirates .
in 1931 while playing for the cardinals , he got the first hit -lrb- off lefty grove -rrb- and scored the first run in the 1931 world series .
roettger attended the university of illinois , graduating in 1924 .
while at illinois , he played basketball and baseball .
he would later become the head coach for baseball at the university of illinois from 1935 to 1951 and an assistant coach for basketball from 1936 to 1949 .
