Matt Bullock, Athletics Trainer • 1916-47, Equipment Manager • 1913-46

Matt Bullock was one of Illinois’s longest-serving staff members, starting as assistant athletics trainer from 1914-15 before becoming head athletics trainer in 1916 until 1947. He was inducted into the initial class of the National Athletics Trainers Association Hall of Fame in 1962. Known as the “Trainer of Trainers” with eight of his students and assistants going on to induction into the NATA Hall of Fame. He also served Illinois as an equipment manager during the entire Robert Zuppke Era and through the first few seasons under Ray Eliot. Bullock died in 1953 at 67 years.