Harry Stuhldreher-Quarterback

*Harry Augustus Stuhldreher

*Born October 14, 1901 in Massillon, Ohio
*Three-time All-American quarterback and member of the Four Horsemen
*Stuhldreher was at 5-7, 151-pounds, making him one of the smallest quarterbacks in Notre
Dame football history
*Often labeled cocky, feisty and ambitious
* 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.
*Died in 1965 at the age of 63 in Pittsburgh of acute pancreatitis and is buried in Calvary Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


*Football Career
*Stuhldreher played football for both Massillon Washington High School and The Kiski School
in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1921
*Self-assured leader who threw accurately but also returned punts and proved a solid blocker
*Started as a signalcaller in four games into his sophomore season in 1922
*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
*General football skills on the field were unmatched by any other play from Notre Dame or as
widely thought-anywhere
*Became the Athletic Director and football coach at Wisconsin.
* 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
* 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
* Stuhldreher was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1958.