Career
He served as the head coach at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1956 to 1966, compiling a record of 52–45–6 (534). Bruhn led the Wisconsin Badgers to two outright Big Ten Conference championships in 1959 and 1962. Wisconsin ended the 1962 season with a #2 ranking, which remain the highest Associated Press Poll and United Press International/Coaches" Poll season-ending rankings for the Wisconsin football program in the history of these polls.
Bruhn attended high school in Mound, Minnesota, where he played football and basketball.
He enrolled at the University of Minnesota in 1932. He captained the baseball team in his senior year.
Following his graduation from Minnesota in 1936, Bruhn went to Amherst College as football line coach and freshman coach in basketball and baseball. He remained there until 1943 when he returned to his alma mater, Minnesota, as ends coach.
He joined the Colgate University football staff as line coach in 1944, then moved on to Franklin & Marshall College as line coach, in addition to being head baseball and basketball coach.
He went to Lafayette College in 1947 as line coach under Ivy Williamson and then served as line coach on Williamson"s staff at Wisconsin from 1949 to 1955. He succeeded Williamson as head football coach, when the latter moved to the position of athletic director following the death of Guy Sundt. After his tenure as head football coach at Wisconsin, Bruhn remained at Wisconsin as assistant athletic director from 1967 to 1969.
