Peter Demmerle

Peter Kirk Demmerle (September 6, 1953 – May 24, 2007) was an American football player. He played college football at the University of Notre Dame as a wide receiver and was a consensus first-team

Demmerle was a member of the national championship team of 1973 which defeated top-ranked Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. A year earlier, he scored Notre Dame's only touchdown in the Orange Bowl; he was selected with the 320th overall pick in the thirteenth round of the 1975 NFL draft by the San Diego Chargers. He died in 2007 at age 53, suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), better known as Lou Gehrig's disease, after an eight-year illness.