Herb Siegert

Herb Siegert
No. 63
Position:	Guard; Linebacker
Personal information
Born:	January 10, 1924; Pana, Illinois, U.S.
Died:	September 26, 2008 (aged 84)
Career information
College:	Illinois; Illinois Wesleyan
NFL draft:	1949 / Round: 18 / Pick: 178
Career history
	Washington Redskins (1949–1951);
Career highlights and awards
	All-American (1948); Second-team All-American (1947); Second-team All-Big Nine (1948);
Career NFL statistics
Games played:
Games played:	36
Interceptions:	2
Fumble recoveries:	4
	Player stats at NFL.com

Herbert Frank Siegert (January 10, 1924 – September 26, 2008) was an American football guard and linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins.

College career[edit]

Siegert originally attended Illinois Wesleyan University, and then served in World War II as a marine in the Pacific.^[1] After the war, he played college football at the University of Illinois and won the Big Ten Conference in 1946, as well as the 1947 Rose Bowl against the University of California, Los Angeles.^[2] Siegert captained the 1948 team, and won All-American honors.^[2]

Siegert was drafted in the eighteenth round of the 1949 NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins, where he played from 1949 to 1951.

After football, Siegert worked as an insurance agent. He and his wife Joan had five daughters.^[2]

^ "1947 Rose Bowl shaped Illini players' lives". Rockford Register Star. Archived from the original on 2012-09-08. Retrieved 2008-08-24.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Siegert made a deal – If he made it home from the war, he'd go back to college". Gatehouse News Service. Archived from the original on 2010-03-17. Retrieved 2008-08-24.