Bob Gambold

Robert Lee Gambold (February 5, 1929 – October 25, 2008) was an athletic star at Washington State University, who played briefly in the National Football League (NFL) and coached in college and the NFL.

Biography Gambold was born and raised in Longview, Washington where he graduated from R.A. Long High School. He played both football and basketball for the Washington State Cougars, as the team's starting quarterback in 1948, 1949 and 1950, and as a starting forward for basketball coach Jack Friel in those same three seasons. He was a first-team All-PCC basketball selection in 1951.

After graduating from college, he played briefly in the NFL for the Los Angeles Rams, Chicago Cardinals and the Philadelphia Eagles. He became a coach after his professional career, working as an assistant at Everett Junior College (now Everett Community College), Oregon State University, Stanford University

A chapter written by Gambold while he was an assistant coach at Stanford, titled "Establishing a Winning defensive Mindset", was included in the book Defensive Football Strategies by the American Football Coaches Association, the organization responsible for the USA Today Coaches' Poll. In this piece, Gambold focused on how football defense is fun, a team effort, is attack and is hitting.

Gambold died on October 25, 2008, in Arizona. The cause of his death was complications from Parkinson's disease.