Ben Schwartzwalder
American football player and coach
Died when: 83 years 330 days (1006 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Floyd Burdette Schwartzwalder (June 2, 1909 – April 28, 1993) was a Hall of Fame football coach at Syracuse University, where he trained future National Football League stars such as Jim Brown, Larry Csonka, Floyd Little and Ernie Davis, the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy.
Schwartzwalder was also a hero of the D-Day invasion and several other important engagements of World War II.He played center at West Virginia University, despite weighing only 146 pounds, and was an all-campus wrestler in 1930 in the 155-pound weight class.
He was captain of the football team in 1933.
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