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HB/WR Brian Baschnagel (official thread)

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Brian Baschnagel
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Date of birth: January 8, 1954 (1954-01-08)
Place of birth: Kingston, New York
Career information
Position(s): Wide Receiver
College: Ohio State
NFL Draft: 1976 / Round: 3
Organizations
As player:
1976-1984 Chicago Bears

Brian Dale Baschnagel (born January 8, 1954 in Kingston, New York) is a former American football player. He played wide receiver for the Chicago Bears.

Brian Baschnagel's family relocated often due to his father's professional responsibilities and moved to the northern suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania when he was in his early teens. Baschnagel attended North Allegheny High School (Pittsburgh PA) and was a running back on the North Allegheny football team. Baschnagel was the first running back in WPIAL history (Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League - then known as the West Penn Conference) to rush for over 400 yards.

According to an article in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Baschnagel rushed for 409 yards in a 1971 game against Sto Rox. According to an article in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Baschnagel set a single season WPIAL rushing record that would stand for 17 years when he ran for 432 yards in a 1972 game.

Brian Baschnagel attended the Ohio State University after graduating from North Allegheny High School. Initially, Baschnagel was a running back but then was converted to a receiver (wing back). In addition to his position as a starting player on the Ohio State football team, Baschnagel was a two time Academic All-American (1974, 1975) and a recipient of the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame scholarship award (1975).

Baschnagel was selected by the Chicago Bears in the third round of the 1976 NFL draft. He was a receiver for the Bears for eight years and retired after the 1984 season. Brian Baschnagel is married, the father of three children, and currently works for North American Corp. in Glenview IL.
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Brian Baschnagel: (at OSU 1972-75) After catching 43 passes in his final two seasons at OSU, Baschnagel got a lot more opportunities in the pros, catching 134 balls in nine seasons with the Bears.
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Brian Baschnagel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0hbiFcnWqs]YouTube - Brian Baschnagel 48yd run, Pete Johnson TD - Penn State 1975[/ame]
 
An update on Brian, who was at the Big Ten media days.

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Brian Baschnagel was at Big Ten Media Days. A star on some of the great Ohio State teams of the early 1970s, Baschnagel has lived in the Chicago area since his pro football career with the Chicago Bears ended after the 1986 Super Bowl season. Baschnagel works for the same company he started with in January 1987: North American Corp. His son, Luke, just graduated in June from Ohio State with a degree in business finance.
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"Basch" was quite simply put one of the most under-appreciated great players to ever play here. And it had nothing to do with folks not appreciating his talents, it was because of who he played with.

I was a kid at the time, but 1972-1975 were my favorite years as a fan of this program because Archie was involved. Brian was here for those 4 years as well and was one of those guys that got overlooked because Archie, Corny, and Pete were doing so many great things as well as guys like Champ Hensen, Bruce Elia, Lenny Willis, etc.

"Basch" was a tough kid who played with passion and grit as can be exemplified by his stats as an NFL player. However, most impressive to me is the fact that he was selected as a Captain for our great 1975 team. That alone, speaks volumes about his ability and character.

Peace.
 
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I had the pleasure of meeting Brian Baschnagel in Chicago

I recently had the pleasure of meeting Brian Baschnagel in Chicago. I was on a business trip. He is a manufacturing representative for the Inline Web Printer I was working with.

Brian had a few very interesting stories from his Buckeye days as you can imagine. One was a very heart warming story about his first season under Woody and it involved Archie Griffin.

Brian was a highly recruited running back out of the Pittsburgh area and had every intention of achieving stardom at the running back position.

In the second game of his freshman year against North Carolina Rick Galbos was injured early in the game. Woody needed a tailback so he gathered all of the running backs together (including Brian) and lined them up on the sideline. He pointed to Archie had told him to go in. Of course most of us know what happened in that game, Archie set a school record for number of rushing yards in one game.

At the next practice Brian noticed that Archie was not practicing because he was banged up from the NC game and immediately came to the conclusion that Arch was rather soft and had already acquired entitlement to the TB position. Brian didn't practice with the first line that day and as a result was seriously considering a transfer.

After practice as the team was heading back to the locker room Brian noticed that Archie was heading his way. Archie stopped him and told him that he appreciated the fact that Brian chose Ohio State and praised his accomplishments in HS. Basically eluding to the fact that in terms of talent he was his equal. Archie went on to tell him that the only reason Woody selected him at the lineup during the game was because he played HS ball in Columbus and explained that if Brian would have been picked that he too would have had an excellent game that day.

Brian was overwhelmed and humbled that Arch would take the time out to console him and from that point on Brian new that he would stay a Buckeye.
 
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I was very impressed by him. He is very friendly and very intelligent.

He also mentioned that he had received a phone call from Jim Tressel a couple years ago which surprised him because he had not met Tress. Tress asked him to address the team before the Northwestern game and talk about his experience playing at Ohio State and also with the Bears. He spoke very highly of Tressel.
 
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Brian Baschnagel: (at OSU 1972-75) After catching 43 passes in his final two seasons at OSU, Baschnagel got a lot more opportunities in the pros, catching 134 balls in nine seasons with the Bears.
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43 catches in 2 season at OSU (21.5 catches per season)
134 catches in 9 seasons in the pros (14.9 catches per season)

Yep, more opportunities in the pros...makes sense. :roll1:
 
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matcar;2151024; said:
Thread title says HB/WR. Is the Percy Harvin position really the Brian Baschnagel position?
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He was called a wingback when he was at tOSU. He'd line up behind the edge of the line (today it would be called an H-back, or the slot position if he was out a little wider). He would often go in motion like a receiver, and was given the ball on reverses and option pitches like a running back. So he was a hybrid RB/WR back in the 70s.
 
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jwinslow;2151019; said:
He caught 92 balls combined in 79, 80 & 81. He was not a full time player in most of the other seasons.
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92 caches in 42 games (NFL was 14-game season then, IIRC). Still only 2.2 catches per game, which was virtually identical to the 2.15 catches per games average his last two years at OSU.
 
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So Bill, did he get more opportunities to catch it in Ditka's system than Wood y's?

Looks like he caught 10, 3, 17, 24 passes at OSU.

Versus ....................... 13, 28, 30, 34 in the seasons he started 10+ games for the bears.
 
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Don't understand the arguing here, leave it be. This kid was a great player on my four favorite years of being a Buckeye fan. Basch could have done greater things here and with the Bears given more opportunities, as could thousands of others that have ever played the game.

Peace
 
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