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Lee Pete was the quarterback for the Rockets from 1946-49. "He looks at a 35-yard completion as a short gain," wrote a Blade scribe after Lee had hooked up with Chuck Hardy on a 77-yard scoring pass during his freshman season. The writer went on to tell how Lee stood on his own eight yard Line and threw the ball on the fly to HARRY at the opponent's 30. As a sophomore Lee was first-team All-Ohio. As a junior, Lee was named Most Valuable player in the Glass Bowl win over Oklahoma City, a game in which he passed for 167 yards and two touchdowns. Besides completing 16 passes in the game, The Blade said Lee "Also played a tremendous defensive game, making tackles, knocking down passes, recovering fumbles." Lee played less as a senior because a new coach "grounded" the offense with the arrival on campus of Hall of Fame running back Emerson Cole. Still, Lee Pete finished his UT career with 23 touchdown passes with a pass completion percentage of .652 in 1947 which still ranks 7th for UT in the single season record book. Besides his football prowess, Lee lettered as a baseball outfielder in 1947 and 1948 and had a batting average of .344. As an alumnus, Pete helped found the Varsity-Alumni football games of the 1960's and early 70's and for many years he was the color commentator on WSPD Radio Broadcasts of Rocket football games.
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