Ben Schwartzwalder

Ben Schwartzwalder
Schwartzwalder with quarterback Dick Easterly at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, 1959
Biographical details
Born(1909-06-02)June 2, 1909
Point Pleasant, West Virginia, U.S.
DiedApril 28, 1993(1993-04-28) (aged 83)
St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.
Playing career
1930–1932West Virginia
Position(s)Center
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1935Sistersville HS (WV)
1936–1940Parkersburg HS (WV)
1941Canton McKinley HS (OH)
1946–1948Muhlenberg
1949–1973Syracuse
Head coaching record
Overall178–96–3 (college)
Bowls2–5
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
1 National (1959)
Awards
AFCA Coach of the Year (1959)
Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year (1959)
Amos Alonzo Stagg Award (1977)
College Football Hall of Fame
Inducted in 1982 (profile)

Floyd Burdette Schwartzwalder (June 2, 1909 – April 28, 1993) was a Hall of Fame football coach at Syracuse University, where he trained future National Football League (NFL) stars such as Jim Brown, Larry Csonka, Floyd Little and Ernie Davis, the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy.

Schwartzwalder was also a hero of the D-Day invasion and several other important engagements of World War II.

He played center at West Virginia University, despite weighing only 146 pounds, and was an all-campus wrestler in 1930 in the 155-pound weight class. He was captain of the football team in 1933.