Rollie stichweh biography of donald
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Stichweh completed 52.6 percent of his career passes and was tabbed as an All-East selection. He was chosen to compete in the 1964 North-South Shrine All-Star Game as well as the Coaches All-America Game in 1965.
While being ranked number one in his class for physical education, Stichweh was selected by Navy as the "best opposition back in the country." Stichweh also has a place in college football history after his touchdown run against Navy in 1963 became first play ever broadcast via television instant replay.
Following graduation, Stichweh served in the Airborne branch of the U.S. Army and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and Air Medal. He was president of the West Point Society of New England, the vice president of the West Point Society of New York and served two terms on the West Point Association of Graduates Board of Trustees.
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For What They Gave on Saturday Afternoon
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1963
By Rabble
Apr 26, 2003
Football: 1963 football preview – A look back at the 1963 football preview.
1963. Its Coach Paul Dietzel’s second year as Head Coach of West Point Football. In this pre-season report,
Jesse Abramson of the New York Herald Tribune gives a detailed description of the Black Knights and a new quarterback by the name of Stichweh–
The day after Army took that pasting from Navy for the fourth straight year, Paul Dietzel and his troops stopped for lunch on the mournful drive back to West Point. In a Jersey roadside restaurant the business of finding a new quarterback, some kind to answer to Roger Staubach, began.
“It wasn’t a happy lunch,” recalled Dietzel yesterday. “Every detail of that horrible debacle was, still is, firmly engraved on my mind. Rollie came to our table and said, ‘Coach, I think I can do the job at quarterback; can I have a try at it?’ And I said, ‘You’re dad-burned right you can have a try.’” The next day Carl Stichweh of Williston Park, L.I., who is Rollie, began warming up the arm which had been rusty since he quarterbacked Mineola High. On a handball court through the winter he played pitch-catch with Cammy Lewis, one of the three graduating quarterbacks and in the spring
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