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Joseph Lawrence Roth (May 29, 1955 – February 19, 1977) was a college football player and All-American quarterback for the California Golden Bears. Roth played the 1976 season knowing he was dying of melanoma ; he died in February 1977, three months after his last regular season game and just weeks after playing an all-star game in Japan.
Oct 12, 2018 · In 1976 Joe Roth was. Coming off a great junior season, Roth was seen as the likely first pick in the NFL draft. One of the last things consensus All-American quarterback Steve Bartkowski did before he left Cal for the No. 1 spot in the 1975 NFL draft was to help recruit a replacement quarterback.
Jul 10, 2014 · Even White didn’t know during the fall of 1976 that Joe Roth, his All-America quarterback, was playing out his senior season while battling an aggressive strain of malignant melanoma. By...
Oct 27, 2015 · A preseason All-America quarterback in the fall of 1976, Roth was diagnosed a few weeks into the season with a recurrence of melanoma that he’d been treated for as a teenager in El Cajon, near...
- Sam Whiting
- Staff Writer
Feb 19, 2007 · Sometime during the 1976 season, Roth found out his cancer had returned, but he kept it to himself. Only White knew what his 6-foot, 4-inch quarterback was really enduring as Cal posted a 5-6...
- John Crumpacker
- Sports Writer
Under fifth-year head coach Mike White, the Golden Bears compiled an overall record of 5–6 and 3–4 in conference. [1] [2] The leader of the previous season's team was quarterback Joe Roth, a junior college transfer, who was a Heisman Trophy candidate as a senior in 1976.
May 10, 2024 · In 1976, he was a leading candidate to win the coveted Heisman Trophy as college football’s top quarterback. Surgery had halted the disease, but it returned in 1976. “Joe confided in me at...
