Dick Stanfel
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Position (s): Guard |
Jersey numbers: 63, 60 |
| born July 20, 1927 in San Francisco , California | |
| died on June 22, 2015 in Libertyville , Illinois | |
| Career information | |
| Active : 1952 - 1958 | |
| NFL Draft : 1951 / Round: 2 / Pick: 19th | |
| College : San Francisco | |
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| Career statistics | |
| Games | 73 |
| Fumbles secured | 3 |
| Play as a coach | 4th |
| Stats at NFL.com | |
| Stats at pro-football-reference.com | |
| Coaching stats at pro-football-reference.com | |
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| Pro Football Hall of Fame | |
Richard Anthony "Dick" Stanfel (* 20th July 1927 in San Francisco , California ; † 22. June 2015 in Libertyville , Illinois ) was an American American football players and coaches in the National Football League (NFL). He played as a guard with the Detroit Lions and Washington Redskins .
Player career
college
Dick Stanfel already played American football in high school . It was used there as a blocking back . After finishing school, he did his military service and fought in the Pacific theater of war during World War II . From 1948 he studied at the University of San Francisco for which he appeared in college football as a guard. His college produced numerous top players at the time. The future all-pros Bob St. Clair , Ollie Matson and Gino Marchetti were Stanfel's teammates. In 1951, Stanfel's team remained unbeaten and in the same year he was called to the College All-Star Game , but could not compete due to a knee injury.
professional
Richard Stanfel was established in 1951 by the Detroit Lions in the second round as the 19th player drafted . For the team from Detroit , in whose ranks there were numerous all-pros such as Yale Lary , Lou Creekmur or Pat Harder , Stanfel ran after he had recovered from his injury from 1952 as a guard in the offense . In particular, he had the task of protecting his own quarterback Bobby Layne from attacks by the opposing defense .
Already in his rookie year Stanfel managed to get into the play-offs and the final of the NFL in which the Cleveland Browns were defeated 17: 7. The following year, the Lions were able to defend their title and won again in the final against the Browns with 17:16. In 1954 Stanfel and his team failed in the final at the Browns with 10:56.
Due to injuries, Stanfel received very little time in 1954 and 1955. After his old college coach Joe Kuharich had taken over the coaching office at the Washington Redskins, Stanfel switched to the team from Washington, DC A championship win with his new team he did not succeed. After the 1958 season, Kuharich was released from the Redskins. He became the new coach at the University of Notre Dame . Stanfel, whose professional salary was insufficient to support a family, decided to end his career and to follow Kuharich as an assistant coach to South Bend .
Coaching career
Stanfel worked as an assistant trainer at the University of Notre Dame from 1959. In 1963 he became an assistant coach at the University of California for a year . In 1964 he was brought by Kuharich, who had meanwhile become coach of the Philadelphia Eagles , as an assistant to the Philadelphia team . In 1971 he moved to the San Francisco 49ers in the same position and was from 1976 assistant to Hank Stram at the New Orleans Saints . In 1980 he took over the post of head coach with the Saints mid-season before joining the Chicago Bears in 1981 . As an assistant to Mike Ditka he won with the Bears in the season 1985 the Super Bowl XX . After the 1992 season, Dick Stanfel retired.
After the career
Dick Stanfel died after a long illness in Libertyville and is buried there in Ascension Catholic Cemetery .
Honors
Dick Stanfel played in the Pro Bowl five times, was elected All-Pro five times , and is a member of the NFL 1950s All-Decade Team , the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame, and the University of San Francisco Athletics Hall of Fame. In 2016, he was posthumously inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame .
Web links
- Dick Stanfel with the Washington Redskins
- Biography (PDF; 47 kB)
- Dick Stanfel with the Detroit Lions
- Dick Stanfel at the Chicago Bears
- Chicago Bears Obituary
Individual evidence
- ^ NFL great, former Bears coach Dick Stanfel passes . In: dailyherald.com , June 24, 2015, accessed June 25, 2015.
- ↑ 1952 Lions Annual Statistics
- ↑ NFL final 1952 statistics
- ↑ 1953 Lions Annual Statistics
- ↑ NFL final 1953 statistics
- ^ 1954 annual Lions statistics
- ↑ 1954 NFL final - statistics
- ^ Dick Stanfel in the Find a Grave database
- ↑ list of 2016 hof inductees (English) bleacherreport.com, accessed on February 7, 2016.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Stanfel, Dick |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stanfel, Richard Anthony (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco , California , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 22, 2015 |
| Place of death | Libertyville , Illinois , United States |