Sport(s) Football 1959 Appalachian State 1935–1936 Miami (OH) Name Bob Breitenstein | 1946–1948 Shaker Heights HS (OH) Role American football player 1949–1955 Miami (FL) (backfield) Positions Halfback | |
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Born July 24, 1913
Cincinnati, Ohio ( 1913-07-24 ) 1957–1958 Appalachian State (assistant) Died 2002, Boone, North Carolina, United States | ||
Robert Logan Breitenstein (July 24, 1913 – March 28, 2002) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Appalachian State Teachers College—now known as Appalachian State University—for one season in 1959, compiling a record of 6–4.
Breitenstein was a native of Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he played college football as a halfback. Breitenstein coached high school football at Shaker Heights High School in Shaker Heights, Ohio. He resigned as head football coach there in 1949 to take a job as backfield coach under Andy Gustafson at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. At Miami, he coached quarterback George Mira and fullback Don Bosseler. Breitenstein died in 2002.