Dick Stanfel

Player

Coach

  • 5 × Pro Bowl selection (1953, 1955-1958 )
  • 5 × All-Pro selection (1953, 1955-1958 )
  • NFL 1950s All- Decade Team
  • 70 Greatest Redskins
  • 2 × NFL Champion (1952, 1953)
  • Super Bowl winner XX
  • Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame (2007)
  • University of San Francisco Athletics Hall of Fame (1959 )

Richard Anthony " Dick" Stanfel ( born July 27, 1927 in San Francisco, California, USA) is an American former American football player and coach in the National Football League ( NFL). He played as a guard for the Detroit Lions and the Washington Redskins.

Playing career

College career

Dick Stanfel played already in high school American football. He came there as a blocking back for use. After his schooling, he did his military service and studied from 1948 for their football team, he ran aground at the University of San Francisco as a Guard. His college was out at that time a number of top players. The subsequent All-Pro player Bob St. Clair, Ollie Matson and Gino Marchetti were teammates of Stanfel. In 1951 the team of Stanfel remained unbeaten and in the same year he was appointed to the College All-Star Game, but could not compete due to a knee injury.

Professional career

Richard Stanfel 1951 drafted by the Detroit Lions in the second round to 19th place. Stood for the top team from Detroit, in whose ranks many All- Pro players such as Yale Lary, Lou Creekmur or Pat Harder, ran Stanfel, after he had recovered from his injury, from 1952 as a guard on offense to. He had to protect in particular the task of their own quarterback Bobby Layne from the attacks of the opponent's defense.

Even in his rookie year in 1952 succeeded Stanfel of making the play -offs and in the NFL playoff in which the Cleveland Browns could be defeated with 17:7. The following year, the Lions were able to defend their title and won the NFL playoff again against the Browns with 17:16. In 1954 Stanfel failed with his team in the final game to the Browns with 56:10.

Due to injuries received Stanfel in the years 1954 and 1955 only a little time use. After his old college coach Joe Kuharich took over as coach at the Washington Redskins, joined Stanfel to the team from Washington DC. A championship win with his new team did not succeed. After the 1958 season Kuharich was released at the Redskins. He was appointed coach at the University of Notre Dame. Stanfel, whose professional salary was not enough to feed a family, decided to end his career and to follow Kuharich as assistant coach to South Bend.

Coaching career

Stanfel lady was from 1959 at the University of Notre worked as an assistant coach. In 1963 he was for a year assistant coach at the University of California. 1964 brought him Kuharich, who had become coach of the Philadelphia Eagles as an assistant to the team from Philadelphia. In 1971, he moved in the same capacity to the San Francisco 49ers and was from 1976 assistant to Hank Stram at the New Orleans Saints. In 1980 he took over the Saints in the middle of the season, the Office of the Head Coaches before he joined the Chicago Bears in 1981. As assistant of Mike Ditka, he won with the Bears 1986 Super Bowl XX. After the 1992 season, Dick Stanfel put to rest.

Honors

Dick Stanfel played five times in the Pro Bowl, the final game of the best players of the season. He was elected to the All-Pro five times and is a member of the NFL 1950s All- Decade Team, in Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame and in the University of San Francisco Athletics Hall of Fame.

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