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Charles Burnham "Bud" Wilkinson (April 23, 1916 – February 9, 1994) was an American football player, coach and broadcaster.

A Minnesota native, Wilkinson began his college football career as a quarterback for the University of Minnesota, taking his team to three national championships in the 1930s. Following his graduation, he became an assistant coach at Syracuse and then Minnesota; during World War II he served on an aircraft carrier with the U.S. Navy. In 1946 he went to the University of Oklahoma as an assistant football coach, becoming head coach and athletic director the following year.

In his first season as head coach, Wilkinson led Oklahoma to the Big Six championship, the first of thirteen consecutive conference titles. In 1953 his team began an unprecedented 47-game winning streak which lasted until 1957; the Wilkinson-coached Sooners never lost more than one game in any season from 1948 to 1958. Wilkinson retired from his Oklahoma position in 1963.

Following an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate in 1964, Wilkinson joined the ABC television network as their lead color commentator on college football telecasts (teaming with Chris Schenkel and, later, Keith Jackson). He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1969.

In 1978 Wilkinson returned to coaching, with the St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League. After two losing seasons he was fired and returned to broadcasting.

Bud Wilkinson died of congestive heart failure in 1994.

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