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  By today's football standards, Breidenbach was a rarity. He played both ways on the field, as an outstanding offensive guard and linebacker on defense during the 1950 and 1951 seasons. Fran played under one of our four all-time great coaches, Frank Zazula. He was an All North Central Conference honorable mention selection as linebacker in 1950 and selected on the All Conference first team at guard in 1951.