Pat Fitzgerald spent 26 football seasons at Northwestern: four as a player, five on the coaching staff and 17 as head coach. Here’s a timeline of his playing and coaching career at Northwestern.
Graduated from Sandburg High School in Orland Park, where he was a Tribune All-State linebacker, and joined the Northwestern football program that fall.Northwestern linebacker Pat Fitzgerald on the sideline during the Wildcats' 17-15 win over Notre Dame in 1995 in South Bend, Ind.
A broken leg suffered in the second-to-last regular-season game kept Fitzgerald from playing in the Rose Bowl.As a team captain, he repeated as the Nagurski and Bednarik winner, first-team All-America and Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year and added the Jack Lambert Trophy as the nation’s top linebacker and the Big Ten Medal of Honor. The Wildcats shared the Big Ten title and lost to Tennessee in the Citrus Bowl.
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