A native of Corpus Christi, Texas, Johnny Roland played college football at the University of Missouri from 1962 to 1965, winning 3 All-Big Eight Conference honors before being named an All American his final year. The 1966 NFL Rookie of the Year, Roland played for seven seasons with the Cardinals and became the franchise’s leading… Read more »
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Emmett “Abe” Stuber
During his tenure as Southeast Missouri State University’s football coach from 1932-1946, Abe Stuber’s teams won 17 Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association titles in football, track, and basketball. He captured more championships than anyone in the school’s history. In the fall of 1986, the Board of Regents named the university’s track complex in his honor. In… Read more »
Terry Metcalf
Long before he starred for the St. Louis Football Cardinals of the mid-1970s, Terry Metcalf wasn’t exactly a known commodity. After all, his journey meandered through places not recognized nationally as football hotbeds – the prep ranks of Seattle, a nearby local community college and then Long Beach State University in California. But just down… Read more »
Roger Wehrli
A standout sprinter at King City High, Wehrli was offered only one scholarship to play college football, at the University of Missouri. At the end of his senior year in 1968, Wehrli was picked to ten different All-American teams. He played in the Hula and Senior Bowls, as well as the Coach’s All-Star game. Although stationed… Read more »
Eric Williams
He was introduced to organized football at a Kansas City Boys Club on 43rd street in the 1960s. That is, despite his mom’s fears of an injury, which were understandable, given Eric Williams was basically 5-foot-nothing, 100-and-nothing. By the time he graduated high school, he was a 6-foot-2, 225-pound wrecking ball. “I always played in… Read more »
Larry Wilson
Larry Wilson was born and raised in Rigby, Utah and played college football at the University of Utah. The St. Louis Cardinals drafted the speedy running back in 1960 and converted him to a defensive back after he sustained several injuries. As part of this change, Wilson and Coach Drulis devised the safety blitz, which… Read more »