10 Facts About Bob Wiese

Robert Lee Wiese was an American football player.

Bob Wiese played professional football for the Detroit Lions in 1947 and 1948.

Bob Wiese enrolled at the University of Michigan where he joined the football team coached by Fritz Crisler in 1942.

In 1943, Crisler asked Bob Wiese to assume the quarterback position, and Bob Wiese started five games at the new position as well as three games at his customary fullback position.

Bob Wiese's teammates chose him to serve as captain of the 1944 Michigan team.

However, Bob Wiese was called into active military service on November 1,1944, and missed the final three games of the season.

Bob Wiese was the starting fullback in six of Michigan's games in the 1946 season.

Bob Wiese completed bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering, was inducted into Tau Beta Pi, and went on to play for the Detroit Lions in the 1947 and 1948 football seasons.

Bob Wiese married Barbara Ann Piper, a Michigan graduate who he met for the first time in wartime Philippines, and they had four children.

The Robert L Bob Wiese scholarship is established in his name in the Athletics Department at the University of Michigan.