Herm Rohrig
Position: | Wingback / Halfback | ||||||||||||
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Born: | Mason City, Iowa | March 19, 1918||||||||||||
Died: | July 14, 2002[1] Lincoln, Nebraska | (aged 84)||||||||||||
Height: | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||||||||||||
Weight: | 190 lb (86 kg) | ||||||||||||
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High school: | Lincoln (NE) | ||||||||||||
College: | Nebraska | ||||||||||||
NFL Draft: | 1941 / Round: 6 / Pick: 46 | ||||||||||||
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Player stats at NFL.com · PFR |
Herman Francis "Stumpy" Rohrig (March 19, 1918 – July 14, 2002) was a former player in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the sixth round of the 1941 NFL Draft and would play three seasons with the team.[2] Following his retirement as a player, he worked as an official and a scout in the NFL and serve as an alternate field judge for Super Bowl I. He also was a supervisor of officials for the Big Ten Conference, mentoring future NFL referee Jerry Markbreit and numerous others who reached the professional ranks.
A graduate of Lincoln High School in Lincoln, Nebraska, he is an inductee in the Nebraska Sports Hall of Fame.[3]
References[]
- ^ Life In Legacy - Week of July 20, 2002
- ^ "Herm Rohrig NFL & AFL Football Statistics". Pro-Football-Reference.com. 1918-03-19. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
- ^ "Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame Foundation". Nebhalloffame.org. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
Categories:
- People from Mason City, Iowa
- Green Bay Packers players
- Nebraska Cornhuskers football players
- 1918 births
- 2002 deaths
- American football biography stubs