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Harry Augustus Stuhldreher (
October 14,
1901—
January 26,
1965) was a three-time
All-American
quarterback and member of the legendary
Four Horsemen of Notre Dame football backfield of the 1920s.
He was born in
Massillon, Ohio, home of the Massillon Tigers professional football team. There is a story, likely apocryphal, that as a boy Stuhldreher carried gear for future
University of Notre Dame football coach
Knute Rockne when the latter was a Tigers star.
Stuhldreher played football for both
Massillon Washington High School and
The Kiski School in
Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1921. At Notre Dame he became quarterback in 1922 and in 1924 led the team to a 10-0 record, a 27-10 win over
Stanford University in the 1925
Rose Bowl, and a national championship. He was one of the smallest quarterbacks in Notre Dame football history, standing 5' 7" tall and weighing just 151 pounds.
After graduating, he joined fellow
member of the Four Horsemen Elmer Layden on the roster of the
Brooklyn Horsemen of the
first American Football League. After playing only six games of the 1926 season, the Horsemen merged with the
National Football League's
Brooklyn Lions franchise (which then was renamed the Horsemen). The AFL, the Brooklyn NFL franchise, and Stuhldreher's major league football career all ended with the last game of the season.
Stuhldreher turned to college coaching, initially also moonlighting for independent pro teams on weekends. He served for 11 years as head coach at
Villanova University, compiling a 65-25-9 record, and 13 years (1936 to 1948) as head coach and athletic director at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. During his tenure, he compiled a 45-62-6 (.425) record, and Wisconsin was twice the
Big Ten Conference runner-up under his guidance.
Leaving Wisconsin, Stuhldreher joined
U.S. Steel in
Pittsburgh in 1950. He died in Pittsburgh of
acute pancreatitis and is buried in
Calvary Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Stuhldreher wrote two books, "Quarterback Play" and "Knute Rockne, Man Builder." The latter was a source for the movie
Knute Rockne, All American, starring
Ronald Reagan as
George Gipp. Stuhldreher's wife Mary was also a writer; the couple had four sons.
Stuhldreher was elected to the
College Football Hall of Fame in 1958.
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