Harry Stuhldreher
- Hartford Blues ( 1925)
- Brooklyn Lions (1926 )
- Brooklyn Horsemen ( AFL)
- College Football Hall of Fame (1958 )
Harry Augustus chair Dreher ( born October 14, 1901 in Massillon, Ohio, USA, † January 26, 1965 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; nickname Stuly or Stuhlie ) is an American former American football player and coach. He has played as a quarterback.
Origin
The ancestors of Harry Stuhldreher originally came from Prussia and emigrated 1850 via Bremen to the United States a. Stuhldreher played American football for the Massillon Washington High. 1915 at the age of 14, he met the former assistant coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish Knute Rockne know. Rockne played at this time for the Massillon Tigers, a professional football team, which was located in the birthplace of chair spin. Stuhldreher offered Rockne as porters, since he so free admission hoped in the football stadium. After his parents had moved, chair Dreher attended high school in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania.
Career
College Players
1921 chair Dreher received a scholarship to the University of Notre Dame, whose head coach Knute Rockne was at that time. In the seasons 1922, 1923 and 1924 Stuhldreher formed together with Elmer Layden, Don Miller and Jim Crowley, the offensive backfield the team of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Stuhldreher ran on as a quarterback, but was also active in other positions. At the time, American football was a running game and a quarterback was rarely used as a launcher. First and foremost, he ran even with the ball and handed it to a running back and then came as a blocker for use. Because quarterbacks were allowed to be tackled after the handoff, they had to have large spills generic skills to dodge the opponent's defensive players can. Chair Dreher was in contrast to today's quarterbacks very small ( he was only 170 cm tall ) and lightweight ( 68 kg), what his speed zugutekam. As a runner, he scored 10 touchdowns and added a 12 touchdowns as a returner.
Harry chair Dreher was one of the first quarterbacks in American football, which was also used as a pass thrower. In three years, he threw 67 times the ball could be caught 43 times. He scored 10 touchdowns.
See Dreher and his teammates in the offensive backfield were the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame - a synonym that was given to them by the American sports reporter Grantland Rice. In 1924 the team from South Bend all of their 10 games to win, which made the move into the Rose Bowl with him. There, the team from Stanford University with 27:10 could be beaten. Overall, the Four Horsemen ran on in 30 games, only two games were lost.
Professional players
In 1925 Stuhldreher played for the Hartford Blues, a team of professionals that have been recorded in the NFL until 1926. 1926 chair Dreher joined the team of the Brooklyn Horsemen. One team that was settled in the American Football League. The team was still in the same year in the Brooklyn Lions, who played in the NFL. In the same year provided the Lions a game its operation and the professional career of chair Dreher was complete after a few games.
Coach
Immediately after his playing career was chair Dreher coach of Villanova University and 1935 coach of the Wisconsin Badgers, the American football team of the University of Wisconsin- Madison. In 1947 he ended his football career.
After the career
1950 chair Dreher joined the company U.S. Steel. In 1960 he retired. He died of cancer and is buried in the Calvary Cemetery in Pittsburgh.
Off the pitch
Chair Dreher was married and had four sons. He wrote two books, one about his old coach Rockne and another about the skills that should have a quarterback. He also played himself in a film about the University of Notre Dame itself
Honors
1958 chair Dreher was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. He was three times All American player during his career at the College. The U.S. Postal immortalized 1998, the Four Horsemen on a postage stamp.
Works
- Harry August chair turners, Knute Rockne, one builder, Macrae Smith Co; 1st edition (1931 )
- Harry Stuhldreher, Quarterback Play