{"id":6532,"date":"2013-09-23T13:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=6532"},"modified":"2013-09-23T13:00:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T17:00:58","slug":"dave-broecker-83-football-past-and-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2013\/09\/23\/dave-broecker-83-football-past-and-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Broecker \u201983 \u2013 football past and present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dave Broecker \u201983<\/strong> was the quarterback for his Carmel<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/09\/dave-broecker1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6535\" title=\"dave broecker\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/09\/dave-broecker1-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/09\/dave-broecker1-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/09\/dave-broecker1.jpg 376w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a> High School team, remembering, \u201cWe played every game like it was our last,\u201d which paid off, as the CHS team went undefeated at 13-0 in Class 3A and won the 1978 state championship!\u00a0 Dave, who is a current Wabash College Trustee, went on to play football at Wabash, and was inducted into the Wabash College Athletics Hall of Fame in 1992, having been a four-year starter, All American Quarterback, and NCAA Postgraduate Scholar.<\/p>\n<p>After earning a master\u2019s degree in engineering from MIT and a master of business administration degree from the University of Chicago, he has founded three companies in the past three years and is currently working as a biotech entrepreneur.<\/p>\n<p>Dave still has his hand in football, coaching his son Andrew\u2019s middle school team.\u00a0 His son, Chris, Wabash \u201916, is a linebacker for the Little Giants Football.\u00a0 He also organized a Class of \u201978 football reunion for the Carmel High School homecoming for September 20, for the first team reunion since leaving Carmel.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/currentincarmel.com\/chs-to-honor-78-team-before-game\">Click here<\/a> to read the CHS reunion story (<em>note<\/em>:\u00a0 Dave is the one on the first row holding the football!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Broecker \u201983 was the quarterback for his Carmel High School team, remembering, \u201cWe played every game like it was our last,\u201d which paid off, as the CHS team went undefeated at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}