Robert Schloredt was a college football

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 quarterback

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 for the Washington Huskies

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. He was awarded the 1959 W.J. Voit Memorial Trophy

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 as the outstanding football player on the Pacific Coast. He is the first, of only four players (the others are Ron Dayne

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, and Charles White

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 and Vince Young

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), to be twice named the Most Valuable Player

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 of the Rose Bowl. He was blind in his left eye.

He played Canadian football

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 for two years for the British Columbia Lions

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 in the Canadian Football League

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 and then was assistant coach for the Washington Huskies for eleven years. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame

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 in 1989.

External links

• http://www.gohuskies.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/schloredt_bob00.html - Washington Official Site