Rollie stichweh biography of albert
Rollie Stichweh was a three-time varsity letterwinner for the football team where he starred as a quarterback, halfback, defensive back and kick and punt.!
For What They Gave on Saturday Afternoon
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1963
By Rabble
Apr 26, 2003
Football: 1963 football preview – A look back at the 1963 football preview.
1963.
Its Coach Paul Dietzel’s second year as Head Coach of West Point Football.
A 'Stitch' in time is the Army's best weapon.
In this pre-season report,
Jesse Abramson of the New York Herald Tribune gives a detailed description of the Black Knights and a new quarterback by the name of Stichweh–
The day after Army took that pasting from Navy for the fourth straight year, Paul Dietzel and his troops stopped for lunch on the mournful drive back to West Point.
In a Jersey roadside restaurant the business of finding a new quarterback, some kind to answer to Roger Staubach, began.
“It wasn’t a happy lunch,” recalled Dietzel yesterday. “Every detail of that horrible debacle was, still is, firmly engraved on my mind.
Rollie came to our table and said, ‘Coach, I think I can do the job at quarterback; can I have a try at it?’ And I said, ‘You’re dad-burned right you can ha