Background
Jaskwhich was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin to Polish immigrant parents.
Jaskwhich was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin to Polish immigrant parents.
He attended Kenosha High School where he graduated in 1929. Jaskwhich attended Notre Dame University, where he played on the last Fighting Irish football squad coached by Knute Rockne in 1930. After quarterback Frank Carideo graduated Jaskwhich was the top candidate to replace him.
He was a prolific athlete and he lettered nine times in track, football and basketball. He served as a three-sport captain his senior year. In the wake of Rockne"s death in 1931, Heartley Anderson took over the head coaching position and named Jaskwhich as a two-year starter at quarterback.
He would post a record of 13-4-1.
Jaskwhich also played for the Fighting Irish basketball team After graduation Jaskwhich accepted the position of head football coach for the Holy Cross Tigers in New Orleans, and then in 1938 he was hired as both head basketball coach and football backfield coach for Ole Mission, where he spent five years.
During World World War II, he served in a temporary capacity as the assistant football coach for the Naval pre-flight school on the University of Georgia campus. In 1945 Jaskwhich became the backfield coach under Clem Crowe on the Iowa Hawkeyes football team at the University of Iowa.
After Crowe left Iowa to go to the Buffalo Bills of the All-America Football Conference, Jaskwhich became the head coach at Iowa.
In 1946 Jaskwhich joined Crowe as a scout for the bills 1946 and from 1947-1949 he was the Bill"s backfield coach. In 1949, he returned to Kenosha to coach football and direct the athletic programs at Mary Doctorate. Bradford High School. He retired from the Kenosha school system in 1980.
On August 3, 1953 Jaskwhich saved the life of a twelve-year-old drowning victim, Mary Jo Parisea, who was swimming on Lake Michigan at Alford Park in Kenosha.
The Charles "Chuck" Jaskwhich Stadium at Indian Trail High School and Academy in Kenosha is named in Jaskwhich"s honor.