Peter J. Schmidt (April 24, 1948 – September 29, 2000) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

coach. He was the head football coach at Albion College from 1983 to 1996 and led the school to nine

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(MIAA) championships and the NCAA Division III Football Championship in 1994. He has also served as the

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from 1997 to 1999. Schmidt died in September 2000 at age 52 after a year-long battle with cancer. Schmidt's overall record in 14 years as a college football head coach is 104–27–4. Since 2001, the Pete Schmidt Memorial Scholar-Athlete Award has been presented each year by the MIAA football coaches to an outstanding scholar-athlete at an MIAA school.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schmidt, Pete 1948 births 2000 deaths Albion Britons football coaches Alma Scots football players Indiana Hoosiers football coaches High school football coaches in Michigan Sportspeople from Bloomington, Indiana Deaths from cancer in Indiana Deaths from lymphoma