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Position (s): Quarterback |
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| born October 14, 1901 in Massillon , Ohio | |
| died on January 26, 1965 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania | |
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| Active : 1926 | |
| College : University of Notre Dame | |
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| Play NFL | 1 |
| Games AFL | 4th |
| Games college | 30th |
| Stats at pro-football-reference.com | |
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Harry Augustus Stuhldreher (born October 14, 1901 in Massillon , Ohio , USA - † January 26, 1965 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ; nicknamed Stuly or Stuhlie ) was an American football player and coach . Among other things, he played as a quarterback .
origin
Harry Stuhldreher's ancestors originally came from Prussia and immigrated to the USA via Bremen in 1850 . Stuhldreher played American football for the Massillon Washington High. In 1915, at the age of 14, he met Knute Rockne , who was then assistant coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish . Rockne was also playing for the Massillon Tigers , a professional football team based in the hometown of Stuhldreher, at the time. Tilting chair offered himself to Rockne as a porter, hoping for free entry to the football stadium. After his parents moved, Stuhldreher attended high school in Saltsburg , Pennsylvania.
career
College player
In 1921 Stuhldreher received a scholarship from the University of Notre Dame , whose head coach at that time was Knute Rockne. In the seasons 1922, 1923 and 1924 Stuhldreher formed the offensive backfield of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish team together with Elmer Layden , Don Miller and Jim Crowley . Stuhldreher acted as a quarterback, but also worked in other positions. At the time, American football was a running game and a quarterback was rarely used as a thrower. First and foremost, he ran the ball himself or gave it to a running back and was then used as a blocker. Since quarterbacks even after the bale transfer tackled could be, they had to have large spills generic skills to be able to dodge around the opponent's defensive players. In contrast to today's quarterbacks, Stuhldreher was very small (it was only 170 cm tall) and very light (68 kg), which benefited its speed. As a runner he scored 10 touchdowns , plus 12 touchdowns as a return.
Harry Stuhldreher was one of the first quarterbacks in American football who was also used as a pass thrower. In three years he threw the ball 67 times, which was caught 43 times. He scored 10 touchdowns.
Stuhldreher and his teammates in the offensive backfield formed the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame - a synonym given to them by the American sports reporter Grantland Rice . In 1924 the team from South Bend could win all of their 10 games, which brought them into the Rose Bowl . There the Stanford University team could be beaten with 27:10. In total, the Four Horsemen ran in 30 games, only two games were lost.
Professional player
In 1925 Stuhldreher played for the Hartford Blues , a professional team that did not join the NFL until 1926. In 1926 Stuhldreher joined the Brooklyn Horsemen crew . A team that was based in the American Football League. The team went on in the same year in the Brooklyn Lions , who played in the NFL . In the same year, the Lions stopped playing and Stuhldreher's career was over after a few games.
Trainer
Immediately after his playing career, Stuhldreher was coach of Villanova University and in 1935 coach of the Wisconsin Badgers, the American football team of the University of Wisconsin – Madison . In 1947 he finished his football career.
After the career
In 1950 Stuhldreher joined the US Steel company . In 1960 he retired. He died of cancer and is buried in Calvary Cemetery, Pittsburgh.
Off the field
Stuhldreher was married and had four sons. He wrote two books, one about his old trainer Rockne and another about the skills a quarterback should have. He also played himself in a film about the University of Notre Dame.
Honors
In 1958 Stuhldreher was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame . He was an All American player three times during his college career . The US Post immortalized the Four Horsemen on a postage stamp in 1998 .
Works
- Harry August Stuhldreher, Knute Rockne, man builder , Macrae Smith Co; 1st edition (1931)
- Harry Stuhldreher, Quarterback Play
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hartford Blues 1926. Archived from the original on May 6, 2010 ; accessed on September 2, 2018 .
Web links
- Statistics of Harry Stuhldreher as a college player (PDF file; 40 kB)
- College Football in 1924 in review
- The Four Horsemen at the Notre Dame Fighting Irish
- Postage stamp with the Four Horsemen
- Harry Stuhldreher in the Internet Movie Database (English)
source
- Jens Plassmann: NFL - American Football. The game, the stars, the stories (= Rororo 9445 rororo Sport ). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-499-19445-7 .
- Jim Lefebvre: Loyal Sons. The Story of the four Horsemen and Notre Dame Football's 1924 champions. Great Day Press, Minneapolis MN 2008, ISBN 978-0-9818841-0-3 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Swivel chair, Harry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stuhldreher, Harry Augustus (maiden name); Stuhly (nickname); Stuhlie (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player and football coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Massillon , Ohio, USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 1965 |
| Place of death | Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, USA |