Robert
Schnitzler
Bob
Schnitzler is a 1961 graduate of Wayne State College. He
is currently coaching boys basketball at Lindsay Holy Family
High School after enjoying a successful career as teacher
and coach of football, track and girls basketball at Battle
Creek High School.
Bob
is a native of Humphrey and graduated from Humphrey High
School. He attended WSC from 1957-61 and earned a bachelor's
degree in physical education with an industrial arts minor.
He
played football and baseball at WSC, and participated in
track his first year (baseball was not offered at WSC during
his freshman year). He earned four football letters, two
baseball letters, and one track letter.
Bob
was captain of the 1960 football team of Coach Gwynn Christensen
that posted a 4-5-0 record. He played both the halfback
and fullback positions and returned kicks.
During
his senior baseball season, he batted .401 for the team
that was 7-3 in Nebraska College Conference action. That
team barely missed a spot in the small college World Series,
losing to Omaha University 7-6 in the 10th inning of the
playoff game. He was WSC's "Most Valuable Player" that year.
An
illustrious coaching career that, at the time of his induction,
has seen him tutor 17 all-state athletes and seven Shrine
Bowl football players, plus eight individual state track
meet champions. His Battle Creek track teams won the last
two Class C state titles [1981 and 1982], his 1981 football
squad was the Class C-1 state champion, and his 1979 girl's
basketball team was the Class C runner-up. He was on the
North staff of the 1982 Shrine Bowl football game.
Going
into the 1982 season, his football coaching record was 140-42-5
and his girl's basketball record was 128-25. He was named
the 1981 "Coach of the Year" by both the Omaha World-Herald
and the Nebraska Coaches Association.
Two of Schnitzler's daughters, Linda and Mary, were standout
basketball players at Wayne State College. Linda Schnitzler
Walker is also a member of the WSC Athletic Hall of Fame,
inducted in 2000.
Schnitzler
was inducted into the WSC Athletics Hall of Fame September
18, 1982.
