John Rohde
John Henry Rohde (February 10, 1927 – July 12, 2001) was an American
football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the
University of the Pacific in
Stockton, California from 1961 to 1963, compiling a record of 12–7. Rohde attended
Abraham Lincoln High School in
San Jose, California and played
college football as an
end at Pacific from 1946 to 1949. He was selected to play in the
East–West Shrine Game in 1949. Rohde was selected by the
Washington Redskins of the
National Football League (NFL) in the eighth round of the
1950 NFL draft. Following a brief stint with the Redskins, Rohde worked as
graduate assistant as his alma mater. He was engaged in business in
Arizona in 1951 and 1952 before returning to Pacific again in 1953 as an assistant coach. He was appointed as assistant
athletic director at Pacific in 1957. Rohde died of a heart attack at the age of 74, on July 12, 2001, in
Sacramento, California.
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