Lester Lautenschlaeger
| Tulane Green Wave | |
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| Position | Quarterback |
| Career history | |
| College | Tulane (1922–1925) |
| Personal information | |
| Date of birth | May 27, 1904 |
| Place of birth | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Date of death | August 5, 1986 (aged 82) |
| Place of death | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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| College Football Hall of Fame (1975) | |
Lester Joseph Lautenschlaeger (May 27, 1904 – August 5, 1986) was an American football player and coach and politician. He played at the quarterback position at Tulane University from 1922 to 1925, served as an assistant football coach at Tulane from 1929 to 1935, and served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1928 to 1932. He was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1975, the Tulane Athletics Hall of Fame in 1977, and the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in 1983.
Lautenschlaeger was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1904.
He enrolled at Tulane University in New Orleans in 1922 and played for the Tulane Green Wave football team from 1922 to 1925. In 1922, he was selected by head coach Clark Shaughnessy to play quarterback. That year, he returned a kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown against North Carolina. With Lautenschlaeger as the starting quarterback, the Tulane football team lost only one game in 1924 and compiled a 9-0-1 record in 1925. At the end of the 1925 season, he was selected as a third-team All-American by Grantland Rice for Collier's Weekly.
In January 1926, after defeating Temple in the Sugar Bowl, Lautenschlaeger helped organize a local team to play the Chicago Bears in an exhibition game in New Orleans. C. C. Pyle offered Lautenschlaeger $6,000 to organize the local team. When Pyle failed to deliver the second half of the funds at the start of halftime, Lautenschlaeger reported to the writers in the press box that there would be no second half if Pyle did not come up with the payment. Pyle promptly delivered the remaining sum to Lautenschaeger's father.
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