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Gerhard H. Schwedes (born April 23, 1938) is a former
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 wi ...
halfback who played two seasons in the American Football League with the Boston Patriots and New York Titans. He was drafted by the Baltimore Colts in the fourth round of the
1960 NFL Draft The 1960 National Football League Draft in which NFL teams take turns selecting amateur college American football players and other first-time eligible players, was held at the Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia on November 30, 1959. Many players, in ...
. Schwedes was also a territorial pick of the Boston Patriots in
1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Jan ...
. He played college football at Syracuse University, which he helped to a victory in the 1960 Cotton Bowl Classic, and attended
Hunterdon Central Regional High School Hunterdon Central Regional High School is a comprehensive, four-year public high school, and regional school district that serves students from five municipalities in east central Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States. Students hail from ...
in
Flemington, New Jersey Flemington is a borough in and the county seat of Hunterdon County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.Scott also played football at Syracuse and later in the NFL.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schwedes, Gerhard 1938 births Living people Sportspeople from Freiburg im Breisgau German players of American football American football halfbacks Hunterdon Central Regional High School alumni Syracuse Orange football players New York Titans (AFL) players Boston Patriots players American Football League players German emigrants to the United States