Pete Newell (American football)
| Position: | Defensive tackle |
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| Personal information | |
| Date of birth: | March 9, 1949 |
| Place of birth: | Illinois |
| Career information | |
| College: | Michigan |
| NFL Draft: | 1971 / Round: 5 |
| Career history | |
Peter Newell (born March 9, 1949) is a former American football defensive lineman. He played college football for the University of Michigan from 1968 to 1970. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the 1971 NFL Draft, but played professional football for the BC Lions in 1971.
Newell grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois, and attended Notre Dame College Prep and was a member of the school's 1966 state championship football team. He graduated from Notre Dame in 1967.
Newell played college football for the University of Michigan from 1968 to 1970. As a junior, he was the leading tackler for the 1969 Michigan Wolverines football team with a total of 70 tackles. The 1969 team was the first Michigan team to be coached by Bo Schembechler. It defeated the No. 1 ranked Ohio State Buckeyes to advance to the 1970 Rose Bowl. Newell had 14 tackles in the Rose Bowl, tied for second most on the team.
Newell was politically active while at Michigan. During the fall of 1969, he was faced with a choice between traveling with the Michigan football team to Iowa for a football game scheduled for November 15, 1969, or traveling to Washington, D.C., to be part of the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, an antiwar protest that attracted over 500,000 demonstrators on the same day. After Newell chose to travel with the team, Schembechler praised him in his comments to the team for being "out there in Iowa City with the rest of the team, and not in Washington with the damn hippies where he really wanted to be."
As a senior, Newell started at right defensive tackle in nine of the ten games played by the 1970 Michigan Wolverines football team. That team finished the season with a 9-1 record and allowed opponents to score a total of only 90 points, an average of nine points per game. On October 3, 1970, Newell had a career-high 15 tackles and a fumble recovery in Michigan's 14-10 victory over Texas A&M. He had 123 career tackles in his three years at Michigan.
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