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Charlie Pittman
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He was an All-American halfback at Penn State and played in the NFL for the Saint Louis Cardinals and the Baltimore Colts. A crafty, oversized running back on defensive-minded teams, he rushed for 2,236 yards and 30 touchdowns in his career with the Nittany Lions. In his junior and senior seasons, Penn State went 22-0, with wins over Kansas and Missouri in the 1969 and 1970 Orange Bowls.
Pittman led the Nittany Lions in rushing in 1969 with 706 yards and 10 touchdowns on 149 carries, caught 10 passes for 127 yards and topped the team in scoring with 66 points.
He was named All-American following the 1969 season and was selected by the Saint Louis Cardinals in the third round of the 1970 NFL Draft (#58 overall). Conversely, Pittman"s son Tony Pittman starred as an undersized defensive back on the high-powered offensive 1994 Penn State team
Despite playing on three of Joe Paterno’s five undefeated teams, both were denied national championships that could have been awarded their teams, but were given to other squads. Charlie Pittman never lost a game he started in high school and neither he nor Tony ever lost a game they started at Penn State.
Their combined college records are 45-0-1.
In the sports world, that is almost a miraculous number. In elite college football, there is no father-son tandem better at their game, record-wise, than the Pittmans. New York Giants general manager Ernie Accorsi, who spent decades guiding NFL teams notes, “it’s unprecedented.
lieutenant’s hard to believe,” Accorsi said.
Pittman is currently the senior vice president of publishing at Schurz Communications, a South Bend, Indiana-based media company. Pittman wore jersey number 24 at Penn State—the same number worn by his boyhood idol, and fellow Nittany Lion, Lenny Moore.
(Lenny Moore wore 24 as a Baltimore Colt but wore 42 during his playing days at Penn State).
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Recruited out of Edmondson High School in Baltimore, Maryland, Pittman was a member of Joe Paterno"s first recruiting class as head coach.
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