Pete Wismann
 Wismann in 1949 | |||||||||
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| Positions | Center, linebacker | ||||||||
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| Born | October 9, 1922 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. | ||||||||
| Died | September 5, 2023 (aged 100) | ||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||||
| Listed weight | 215 lb (98 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school | Maplewood-Richmond Heights (Maplewood, Missouri) | ||||||||
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| NFL draft | 1949: 7th round, 64th overall pick | ||||||||
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Lawrence William "Pete" Wismann (October 9, 1922 – September 5, 2023) was an American football center and linebacker[1] who played five seasons with the San Francisco 49ers.[2]
Biography
Wismann was born October 9, 1922, in St. Louis. He attended Maplewood High School in Maplewood, Missouri.[3] Wismann played college football at Washington University in St. Louis before the war and at Saint Louis University after serving in the Marine Corps. He also worked as a mason.[4] Wismann died on September 5, 2023, at the age of 100.[5]
References
- ↑ Branch, Eric (March 13, 2021). "The last living original 49er: Ken Casanega's remarkable life reaches 100". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
- ↑ "75 for 75: First NFL Game". www.49ers.com. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
- ↑ Hank Gola, "San Francisco 49ers Have Living Link to Beginning with 90-year Pete Wismann, a Playmaker on All-America Football Conference Team," New York Daily News, January 28, 2013.
- ↑ Gould IV, William B. (2002). Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor (paperback ed.). Stanford University Press. p. 362. ISBN 0-8047-4708-3.
- ↑ "In Memoriam" (PDF). Organized Labor. Vol. 123, no. 12. San Francisco Building & Construction Trades Council. December 2023. p. 22.
External links
Media related to Pete Wismann at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- 1922 births
- 2023 deaths
- American football linebackers
- American football centers
- American men centenarians
- Saint Louis Billikens football players
- San Francisco 49ers players
- Players of American football from St. Louis
- United States Marine Corps personnel of World War II
- Washington University Bears football players
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American football offensive lineman, 1920s birth stubs
- American football linebacker, pre-1930s birth stubs