Rollie stichweh biography definition
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Carl Roland “Rollie” Stichweh, a Mineola High School graduate and West Point football star, will be one of three inductees in the second class of the Mineola Athletic Hall of Fame.
Stichweh, who grew up in Williston Park, won three Nassau County championships during his high school tenure in basketball, football and lacrosse.
Rollie stichweh biography definition
A recipient of the Thorpe Award as the best player in Nassau County for football, he went on to play for the Army Black Knights at the U.S. Military Academy at quarterback and other positions. Stichweh is also a member of the Army Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2012.
Stichweh’s college highlights include winning back-to-back MVP awards during the Army-Navy game — one of the most highly anticipated each year — in 1963 and 1964.
In those two games during his junior and senior years, Army went 1-1 against Navy with Stichweh under center opposite Navy quarterback Roger Staubach, who went on to a Hall of Fame NFL career with the Dallas Cowboys.
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