Remembering Charlie Wedemeyer

PHOTO (Michigan State Athletics): Charlie Wedemeyer was an all-purpose quarterback, flanker and holder. Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report “Spartan Verses” was a book of poems by Michigan State’s Pat Gallinagh, an Academic All-American defensive lineman on the Spartans’ 1965 and 1966 national championship teams. The Polynesian Football Hall of Fame inducted Charlie Wedemeyer, a three-year Michigan State letterman, 1966-68, on Jan. 21 in his home state of Hawaii. REMEMBERING CHARLIE WEDEMEYER Feb. 19, 1946-June 3, 2010 Punahou School,…

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Duffy’s Hawaiian Pipeliner Charlie Wedemeyer returns home to Polynesian Football Hall of Fame induction

PHOTO: Charlie Wedemeyer's athletic career spans his career at Michigan State, coaching at Los Gatos High in the Bay Area and his induction into the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame in Hawaii. He was joined in this photo around him left-to-right: NFL coaches Jon Gruden and John Madden, two family friends, former 49ers coach Steve Mariucci and Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo. Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report By TOM SHANAHAN A high school coach’s invaluable role too…

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Charlie Wedemeyer’s Hall of Fame life and wife get call from Polynesian Football Hall of Fame

PHOTO: Michigan State's Charlie Wedemeyer, who was named posthumously on Dec. 29 to the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame's Class of 2021, with his saintly wife Lucy in 2005 at their alma mater, Punahou School in Honolulu. Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report By TOM SHANAHAN Duffy Daugherty grabbed the microphone while mixed among a roomful of NFL icons during Super Bowl XIX week. Michigan State’s College Football Hall of Fame coach, never short on engaging stories to tell,…

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