Dave Schreiner
End, American football player
1921 – 1945
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Who was Dave Schreiner?
David Nathan "Dave" Schreiner was an American football player. He was a two-time All-American end at Wisconsin and a 1943 draft choice of the Detroit Lions of the National Football League. He was killed in action as a Marine during the Battle of Okinawa. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955. His life and death are detailed in the book Third Down and a War to Go, written by Terry Frei, the son of Jerry Frei, one of Schreiner's 1942 Wisconsin teammates.
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- Born
- Mar 5, 1921
Lancaster - Education
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Lived in
- Lancaster
- Died
- Jun 21, 1945
Okinawa Prefecture
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on July 23, 2013
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