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- “Joe wasn’t all about football,” Gary Graumann, one of Roth’s backup quarterbacks that season, says. “During his last days, he was still going to class. He gave one standing talk called “Don’t Quit” in a rhetoric class I had with him that brought the entire class to tears. He embodied what it means to be a student athlete.
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Joseph Lawrence Roth (May 29, 1955 – February 19, 1977) [1] was a college football player and All-American [2] [3] quarterback for the California Golden Bears. Roth played the 1976 season knowing he was dying of melanoma; he died in February 1977, three months after his last regular season game and just weeks after playing an all-star game in ...
Oct 12, 2018 · “Joe wasn’t all about football,” Gary Graumann, one of Roth’s backup quarterbacks that season, says. “During his last days, he was still going to class. He gave one standing talk called “Don’t Quit” in a rhetoric class I had with him that brought the entire class to tears.
Oct 26, 2015 · He was a Cal quarterback named Joe Roth, and he had it all: looks (6-foot-4, with wavy blond hair and, in the words of his girlfriend, Tracy Lagos McAllister, “a super-cute smile”), brains, and an abiding Catholic faith that led him to take the Golden Rule seriously. “The sky was the limit for him,” recalls his head coach, Mike White.
Oct 28, 2015 · Joe Roth is one of the most compelling figures in Pac-12 history. A star QB at Cal in the mid '70s, Roth was a preseason All-American expected by many to lead the Golden Bears to their...
He was never going to make an excuse, and that's what made him such a great leader. Everyone knew he was about the people around him, all the way to the very end." -Paul Hackett. The authorized documentary about Joe Roth, the late Cal All-American quarterback.
Jul 20, 2015 · The lion's share of Cal fans know the story of Joe Roth, a young quarterback who led the Bears to be co-champions of the Pac-8 in 1975. He was a man with courage beyond his years, battling...
Jul 10, 2014 · Roth’s remarkable tale — the way he lived and the way he died — unfolds in “Don’t Quit: The Joe Roth Story,” a documentary film five years in the making by Cal grads Phil Schaaf and Bob...
