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John Brodie
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14 Aug 1935
† 23 Jan 2026
Menlo Park, California, USA
Biography
Born August 14, 1935, in Menlo Park, California, John Riley Brodie grew up in Oakland's Montclair district and attended Oakland Technical High School, where he excelled as a standout athlete. He played college football and golf at Stanford University, earning consensus All-American honors in football as a senior in 1956. Remarkably, Brodie rejected an athletic scholarship and played as a walk-on while also competing on Stanford's golf team, which kept him out of spring football drills. He nearly...
Also Known As
John Riley Brodie, John R. Brodie
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