Rod Franz

Rodney Thomas Franz (born February 8, 1925, died November 27, 1999) was an American football player and coach. He played college football as a guard at the University of California, Berkeley from 1946 to 1949, and as a senior he was a unanimous selection on the 1949 College Football All-America Team. He was the first head football coach at the University of California, Riverside, serving for the 1955 season with a record of 1-3-1, and he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1977. He began coaching in 1951 at Mount Diablo High School in Concord, California, and later worked as a lobbyist.