Peter Demmerle

Peter Demmerle
No. 85
	Demmerle from the "Dome" (1975)
Born:	September 6, 1953
Died:	May 24, 2007 (aged 53); Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.
Career information
Position(s)	Wide receiver
College	University of Notre Dame
High school	New Canaan (CT)
Career history
As player
1972–1974	Notre Dame
Career highlights and awards
	National champion (1973); Consensus All-American (1974);

Peter Kirk Demmerle (September 6, 1953 – May 24, 2007) was an American football player. He played college football at the University of Notre Dame as a wide receiver and was a consensus first-team All-American in 1974.^[1]

Demmerle was a member of the national championship team of 1973 which defeated top-ranked Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. A year earlier, he scored Notre Dame's only touchdown in the Orange Bowl; he was selected in the thirteenth round of the 1975 NFL draft by the San Diego Chargers.^[2]

Demmerle graduated from Fordham University School of Law and worked in the insurance practice group at LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae.^[3] He died in 2007 at age 53, after an eight-year battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), better known as Lou Gehrig's disease.^[2]^[4]

References