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border-right: none; box-shadow: inset 0 2px 0 #FEFEFE, inset 0 -2px 0 #FEFEFE;">Personal information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; white-space: nowrap; border-top: 1px solid #ccc;">Born:</th><td class="infobox-data" style="border-top: 1px solid #ccc;"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1926-04-03</span>)</span>April 3, 1926<br /><a href="/wiki/Chattanooga,_Tennessee" title="Chattanooga, Tennessee">Chattanooga, Tennessee</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; white-space: nowrap; border-top: 1px solid #ccc;">Died:</th><td class="infobox-data" style="border-top: 1px solid #ccc;">May 22, 2011<span style="display:none">(2011-05-22)</span> (aged 85)<br /><a href="/wiki/Newburgh,_New_York" title="Newburgh, New York">Newburgh, New York</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; white-space: nowrap; border-top: 1px solid #ccc;">Height</th><td class="infobox-data" style="border-top: 1px solid #ccc;">5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; white-space: nowrap; border-top: 1px solid #ccc;">Weight</th><td class="infobox-data" style="border-top: 1px solid #ccc;">190 lb (86 kg)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000; border:3px solid #000000; border-left: none; border-right: none; box-shadow: inset 0 2px 0 #FEFEFE, inset 0 -2px 0 #FEFEFE;">Career history</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; white-space: nowrap; border-top: 1px solid #ccc;">College</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist" style="border-top: 1px solid #ccc;"><a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Volunteers_football" title="Tennessee Volunteers football">Tennessee</a> (1944) <br /> <a href="/wiki/Army_Black_Knights_football" title="Army Black Knights football">Army</a> (1945–1947)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; white-space: nowrap; border-top: 1px solid #ccc;">Bowl games</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist" style="border-top: 1px solid #ccc;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rose_Bowl_Game" title="Rose Bowl Game">Rose Bowl</a> (<a href="/wiki/1945_Rose_Bowl" title="1945 Rose Bowl">1944</a>)</li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; white-space: nowrap; border-top: 1px solid #ccc;">High school</th><td class="infobox-data" style="border-top: 1px solid #ccc;"><a href="/wiki/Baylor_School" title="Baylor School">Baylor</a> <br /> (Chattanooga, Tennessee)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000; border:3px solid #000000; border-left: none; border-right: none; box-shadow: inset 0 2px 0 #FEFEFE, inset 0 -2px 0 #FEFEFE;">Career highlights and awards</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-top: 1px solid #ccc;"><div style="text-align: left;"> <ul><li>2× <a href="/wiki/College_football_national_championships_in_NCAA_Division_I_FBS" title="College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS">National champion</a> (<a href="/wiki/1945_college_football_season" title="1945 college football season">1945</a>, <a href="/wiki/1946_Army_Cadets_football_team" title="1946 Army Cadets football team">1946</a>)</li> <li>2× <a href="/wiki/Lambert-Meadowlands_Trophy" title="Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy">Eastern champion</a> (1945, 1946)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outland_Trophy" title="Outland Trophy">Outland Trophy</a> (1947)</li> <li>Consensus <a href="/wiki/College_Football_All-America_Team" title="College Football All-America Team">All-American</a> (<a href="/wiki/1947_College_Football_All-America_Team" title="1947 College Football All-America Team">1947</a>)</li> <li>Second-team All-American (<a href="/wiki/1946_College_Football_All-America_Team" title="1946 College Football All-America Team">1946</a>)</li> <li>First-team All-Eastern (<a href="/wiki/1947_All-Eastern_football_team" title="1947 All-Eastern football team">1947</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Army_Black_Knights_football#Retired_numbers" title="Army Black Knights football">Army Black Knights No. 61</a> retired</li></ul></div> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-top: 1px solid #ccc;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="background-color: #193050; font-weight:bold; border:2px solid #A1A7A9"><a href="/wiki/College_Football_Hall_of_Fame" title="College Football Hall of Fame"><span style="color:white">College Football Hall of Fame</span></a> <span style="color:white"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://footballfoundation.org/hof_search.aspx?hof=1704">(1987)</a></span></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Joseph Benton Steffy Jr.</b> (April 3, 1926 – May 22, 2011) was an American <a href="/wiki/American_football" title="American football">football</a> player. He went to fight in the <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a> and received the Bronze Star Medal and the <a href="/wiki/Purple_Heart" title="Purple Heart">Purple Heart</a>. He was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/College_Football_Hall_of_Fame" title="College Football Hall of Fame">College Football Hall of Fame</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joe_Steffy&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Steffy was born in <a href="/wiki/Chattanooga,_Tennessee" title="Chattanooga, Tennessee">Chattanooga, Tennessee</a>, on April 3, 1926. He attended the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Tennessee" title="University of Tennessee">University of Tennessee</a>, where he played on the <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Volunteers_football" title="Tennessee Volunteers football">football team</a> for one season in 1944. That year, the Volunteers went undefeated in the regular season, but lost to <a href="/wiki/1944_USC_Trojans_football_team" title="1944 USC Trojans football team">Southern California</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1945_Rose_Bowl" title="1945 Rose Bowl">Rose Bowl</a>. The following year, he enrolled at the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Military_Academy" title="United States Military Academy">United States Military Academy</a>, where he played for the <a href="/wiki/Army_Black_Knights_football" title="Army Black Knights football">Army football team</a> for three seasons as an <a href="/wiki/Offensive_guard" class="mw-redirect" title="Offensive guard">offensive guard</a> and as a <a href="/wiki/Center_(American_football)" class="mw-redirect" title="Center (American football)">center</a> on defense. The Cadets went undefeated in 1945 and 1946. In 1947, Steffy was named team captain.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Military_service">Military service</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joe_Steffy&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Military service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He graduated from USMA in 1949. In April 1950, he married Ann née Brown. As a <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant" title="Lieutenant">lieutenant</a>, Steffy served in the <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a>, where he suffered <a href="/wiki/Frostbite" title="Frostbite">frostbite</a> and was wounded in the foot by a grenade. Due to his injuries, he was evacuated from <a href="/wiki/Hungnam" title="Hungnam">Hungnam</a> to Japan, and later awarded the <a href="/wiki/Bronze_Star_Medal" title="Bronze Star Medal">Bronze Star Medal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_life">Later life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joe_Steffy&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Later life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the war, Steffy served on the Army football staff as the freshman team coach. He later owned a car dealership in <a href="/wiki/Newburgh,_New_York" title="Newburgh, New York">Newburgh, New York</a>. With his wife, who died in 2004, he had one son. 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colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">1946: <a href="/wiki/George_Connor_(American_football)" title="George Connor (American football)">Connor</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1947: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Steffy</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1948: <a href="/wiki/Bill_Fischer_(American_football)" title="Bill Fischer (American football)">Fischer</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1949: <a href="/wiki/Ed_Bagdon" title="Ed Bagdon">Bagdon</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1950: <a href="/wiki/Bob_Gain" title="Bob Gain">Gain</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1951: <a href="/wiki/Jim_Weatherall" title="Jim Weatherall">Weatherall</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1952: <a href="/wiki/Dick_Modzelewski" title="Dick Modzelewski">Modzelewski</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1953: <a href="/wiki/J._D._Roberts" title="J. 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Brown</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1961: <a href="/wiki/Merlin_Olsen" title="Merlin Olsen">Olsen</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1962: <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Bell" title="Bobby Bell">Bell</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1963: <a href="/wiki/Scott_Appleton" title="Scott Appleton">Appleton</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1964: <a href="/wiki/Steve_DeLong" title="Steve DeLong">DeLong</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1965: <a href="/wiki/Tommy_Nobis" title="Tommy Nobis">Nobis</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1966: <a href="/wiki/Loyd_Phillips" title="Loyd Phillips">Phillips</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1967: <a href="/wiki/Ron_Yary" title="Ron Yary">Yary</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1968: <a href="/wiki/Bill_Stanfill" title="Bill Stanfill">Stanfill</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1969: <a href="/wiki/Mike_Reid_(singer)" title="Mike Reid (singer)">Reid</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1970: <a href="/wiki/Jim_Stillwagon" title="Jim Stillwagon">Stillwagon</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1971: <a href="/wiki/Larry_Jacobson" title="Larry Jacobson">Jacobson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1972: <a href="/wiki/Rich_Glover" title="Rich Glover">Glover</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1973: <a href="/wiki/John_Hicks_(American_football)" title="John Hicks (American football)">Hicks</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1974: <a href="/wiki/Randy_White_(American_football)" title="Randy White (American football)">White</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1975: <a href="/wiki/Lee_Roy_Selmon" title="Lee Roy Selmon">Selmon</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1976: <a href="/wiki/Ross_Browner" title="Ross Browner">Browner</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1977: <a href="/wiki/Brad_Shearer" title="Brad Shearer">Shearer</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1978: <a href="/wiki/Greg_Roberts_(American_football)" title="Greg Roberts (American football)">G. Roberts</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1979: <a href="/wiki/Jim_Ritcher" title="Jim Ritcher">Ritcher</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1980: <a href="/wiki/Mark_May" title="Mark May">May</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1981: <a href="/wiki/Dave_Rimington" title="Dave Rimington">Rimington</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1982: <a href="/wiki/Dave_Rimington" title="Dave Rimington">Rimington</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1983: <a href="/wiki/Dean_Steinkuhler" title="Dean Steinkuhler">Steinkuhler</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1984: <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Smith" title="Bruce Smith">B. 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