Did you know.......

that former West Bend High School student/athlete Dan Schneiss was the starting Fullback and Co-Captain of the 1970 National Champion Nebraska Cornhuskers football team that featured one of the college all-time great players, Halfback Johnny Rodgers. After winning the title, Schneiss had the opportunity to meet President Nixon as is desribed in the following portion of an article taken from the Cornhuskers official website. 

     "Nebraska also received a national championship endorsement from President Richard Nixon, who proclaimed the Cornhuskers No. 1, to the delight of 8,000 at the NU Coliseum, on Jan. 14, 1971. Co-captains Murtaugh and fullback Dan Schneiss joined Coach Devaney alongside Nixon."

Following his college career Schneiss was drafted in the eleventh round by the NFL's  New England Patriots as a Tight End. Interestingly, Schneiss is not the only West Bender to have started for Nebraska. A few years earlier HB Ron Kirkland played for the Huskers as well. He too was drafted by the NFL, going in the ninth round of the 1967 draft to the Baltimore Colts. He went on to play in the Canadian Football League for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.