Lee Pete

Lee Pete
Position: Quarterback
Date of birth: November 14, 1924
Death date March 25, 2010
Career information
Active: 1946–1949
Teams
Toledo Rockets (1946-1949)
Career statistics
Touchdown passes: 23
Career highlights and awards
First-Team All-Ohio (1947) Glass Bowl MVP (1948)

Leland "Lee" Pete (born November 14, 1924 in Toledo , Ohio , † March 25, 2010 ibid) was an American radio presenter and American football player. He played in the position of quarterback for the Toledo Rockets .

Career

Pete played college football at the University of Toledo for the Toledo Rockets from 1946 to 1949 . Originally enrolled at the University of Michigan in the summer of 1946 , Toledo's head coach Bill Orwig was able to recruit him for the Rockets. Most of the statistics of his era are unknown, but he threw him 23 touchdown passes in his career , a high number at a time when the running game was the main focus. Its completion rate of 65.2% in the 1947 season is still one of the best values ​​in the history of the Rockets. That year he was also elected First-Team All-Ohio . In the 1948 Glass Bowl , he threw for 167 yards on 17 passes captured, earning him the MVP of the game. Video footage from his playing time showed he could throw passes over 70 yards, excellent value in any era. For the Rockets' centenary in 2017, Pete was voted 28th on the All-Century Team. He also played baseball for the Rockets in 1947 and 1948 . He achieved a batting average of .344.

After college, he had unsuccessful trial training with the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions . He then opened a salon in Toledo before going to the radio in 1951. For years he was the commentator on the Rockets games at WSPD . In 1970 he moved to KDWN from Las Vegas , where he hosted "The Sturdust Line". He stayed there until 1998, before joining KRLV-AM for two years to host an afternoon show. At the beginning of 2002 he retired.

Personal

In 2002, he took care of his wife, Lila, at home while he was struggling with diabetes and circulatory problems himself. After the death of his wife in 2002 he contacted a childhood friend who convinced him to move back to Toledo. He married her on September 8, 2007. He died in 2010 at the age of 85 from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , which he had been struggling with since 2005 and which made him bedridden for the last two years of his life.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Toledo Football Media Guide 2017 . S. 164 ( online [PDF; accessed April 7, 2018]).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Former local radio host Lee Pete Dies. Accessed April 7, 2018 . 
3. ↑ John Robinson Block (Ed.): 100 Years of Toledo Football . Toledo Blade Company , 2017, ISBN 978-0-692-94023-5 , pp. 61 .
4. ↑ ^{a b} Lee Pete, football, baseball (1946-49). Toledo Rockets, accessed April 7, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Lee Pete was Las Vegas radio pioneer. July 15, 2003, accessed April 7, 2018 .