Joe Roth (American football)
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Joseph Lawrence Roth was an American college football player who was an All-American quarterback for the California Golden Bears. Roth played the 1976 season knowing he was dying of melanoma; he died
Joseph Lawrence Roth portrait
California Memorial Stadium before the 2008 Joe Roth Memorial Game against UCLA.
1977 NFL draft
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The 1977 NFL draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players. It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting. The draft was
Joe Roth (American football)
…Roth died at age 21 on February 19, 1977. NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle opened the 1977 NFL draft in early May with a moment of silence for Roth. Posthumously, Roth received the Berkeley Citation in 1977, awarded to those "whose attainments significantly…
Roosevelt Hotel (location of the draft), photographed in 2008