Bob Breitenstein
American football coach
About Bob Breitenstein
Lived 1913 – 2002 (aged 88). Bob Breitenstein was an American american football player and american football coach.
Robert Logan Breitenstein (July 24, 1913 – March 28, 2002) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Appalachian State Teachers College—now known as Appalachian State University—for one season in 1959, compiling a record of 6–4.
Breitenstein was a native of Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he played college football as a halfback. Breitenstein coached high school football at Shaker Heights High School in Shaker Heights, Ohio. He resigned as head football coach there in 1949 to take a job as backfield coach under Andy Gustafson at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. In Miami, he coached quarterback George Mira and fullback Don Bosseler. Breitenstein died in 2002.
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Who was Bob Breitenstein?
American football coach (1913-2002)
When was Bob Breitenstein born?
Bob Breitenstein was born on 24 July 1913 in Cincinnati.
When did Bob Breitenstein die?
Bob Breitenstein died on 28 March 2002 in Boone.
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Bob Breitenstein was an american football player and american football coach.
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Bob Breitenstein was American.
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