Norm Ellenberger in 1966 while a coach at Monmouth.

Norm Ellenberger, 65, who was hired Monday by the Chicago Bulls as an assistant coach to Tim Floyd, is a former coach of three sports at Monmouth College.

Ellenberger is one of only two men in Monmouth history to have the head position for the three major team sports (football, basketball and baseball). The other was MC legend Bobby Woll. Unlike Woll, Ellenberger accomplished the feat within one academic year, going 2-6 in football, 14-8 in basketball and 12-6 in baseball in 1965-66. He’d been schooled in all three sports at Butler University where he played for coaching legend Paul D. "Tony" Hinkle.

Ellenberger graduated from Butler in 1955 and signed a one-year contract to play in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. He was the head basketball coach and assisted in three other sports in the New Haven (Ind.) public school district from 1957-64.

Basketball was the sport Ellenberger coached at MC the most years, as he guided the Scots for three seasons, beginning with the 1964-65 campaign. He compiled a mark of 30-36, which included eight losses by four points or less. His best year was the 14-8 campaign in 1965-66 as Monmouth placed third in the Midwest Conference with a record of 12-6.

For two springs, Ellenberger coached the baseball team, compiling a 21-14 mark. In the latter season, the Scots were 9-1 in MWC action and won the South Division before falling in the first-ever championship series to Ripon. The Redmen defeated the Scots two games to one.

Ellenberger is the only football coach in the last 70 years to win his first two games on the sidelines, leading Monmouth to victories over St. Olaf and Cornell. His Scots didn’t win another game in the fall of 1965, however, giving him a career mark of 2-6. He lost his only Bronze Turkey game against Knox College 14-6.

Ellenberger left the college while still the active baseball coach on April 13, 1967, to take an assistant basketball position at the University of New Mexico. He went on to serve as the Lobos' head coach, notching a record of 134-62 in six full seasons.