He’s memorialized on the scoreboard at the university’s football stadium. "Freddie Steinmark is a person who has touched so many people's lives, and still to this day, people get emotional talking about him. Fourty-four years after his death from osteosarcoma, former Texas national champion Freddie Steinmark’s immense impact on the battle against cancer is still readily evident. As the end of a successful season, Freddie is injured and faces a life-changing diagnosis. Freddie … He had the size and the strength, plus the quickness to be a very solid Running Back. It’s a combination of the herculean effort it takes to accomplish success in a given sport and the pure passion that explodes from the human story. His life has since been the subject of a number of inspirational books and a movie. Watch Longhorn Network's Freddie Steinmark tribute featuring Longhorn legends discussing his impact on them and UT. Freddie Steinmark (January 27, 1949 – June 6, 1971) was an American college football player, whose diagnosis of bone cancer and subsequent leg amputation during his junior year with the University of Texas Longhorns provided an inspiration for the team's national championship that year. Steinmark’s girlfriend Linda Wheeler (Sarah Bolger-The Lazarus Effect) is also accepted to the University, giving Freddie an instant community. Six months after they took the left leg of Freddie Steinmark, he returned to the Houston tumor clinic for another of his nerve-wracking checkups. And his short life has so far generated two biographies, including Jim Dent’s “Courage Beyond the Game: The Freddie Steinmark Story,” on which the film is based. Freddie Joe died June 6, 1971. The stadium scoreboard is named after Steinmark. Steinmark died in 1971 after penning a memoir. I am single since 2008. Linda Wheeler passed away on November 19, 2019 in Hawkins, Texas. At 5-foot-9 and 154 pounds, Steinmark was an undersized — and therefore unlikely — football star. Whittrock plays Steinmark as one of the happiest, most-likable, and encouraging “all-American” guys that might have existed in the 1960’s. Two days after his beloved Longhorns defeated Arkansas to win the 1969 national championship, Steinmark discovered the pain in a leg he had been playing on … A new forty-seven-foot-high scoreboard at the remodeled Memorial Stadium on the University of Texas at Austin campus was dedicated to Sports films based on true stories come with an inherent drama. December 3, 2015: Article, Sports Illustrated, Freddie Steinmark's Far-Reaching Legacy Still Felt 44 Years After Death, Quote by Bower Yousse and Sammy Steinmark June 3, 2017: Freddie Steinmark Inducted, 10th Annual Sports Faith International Hall of Fame, Chicago, Il. As stated in the movie, he was an All-Southwest Conference safety in 1969. Bill Atessis, Bobby Wuensch, Scott Henderson and many others. When Freddie is a junior, and training intensely, he meets Linda Wheeler (Sarah Bolger) and it’s love at first sight. Linda Wheeler was Freddie’s real-life girlfriend, having known each other since they were in the 8th grade. Based on a true story. The Texas Gameday crew interviews friend and former Freddie Steinmark teammate Bobby Mitchell, who attended high school with Freddie and roomed with him for three years at the University of Texas. In this inspirational drama Freddie Steinmark (Finn Wittrock), a smaller than average football player with a passion for game, is given the opportunity to play at the University of Texas by Coach Darrell Royal (Aaron Eckhart). Finn Wittrock as Freddie Steinmark and Sarah Bolger as Linda Wheeler. Jim Dent, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Junction Boys, returns with a powerful Texas story which transcends college football, displaying the courage and determination of one of the game's most valiant players. Considered too small even by 1960s standards to play Division I football, Steinmark trained hard and became a star defensive back at the University of Texas. My All American is a 2015 American biographical drama sport film based on the life of college football player Freddie Steinmark.The film was written and directed by Angelo Pizzo.It is based on the book Courage Beyond the Game: The Freddie Steinmark Story by Jim Dent.The film stars Finn Wittrock, Sarah Bolger, Robin Tunney and Aaron Eckhart.The film was released on November 13, 2015, by … Freddie Steinmark was an incredibly tough individual. Irish actress Sarah Bolger, looking like a creamy blonde in a 1940s Andy Hardy film, is love interest Linda Wheeler. My All American.

On his recruiting trip, Steinmark feared that the coaches in Austin would take one look at his small frame and send him home. I had forgotten that Happy Feller was on that team and that Texas Tech beat UT while I was at Tech. I recall very vividly the "Game of the Century" that he played against Arkansas. , Award Received by Bower Yousse and Sammy Steinmark. Freddie Steinmark and Linda Wheeler were well known and well liked around campus. Mitchell recalls his close relationship with Freddie, who stood by him when he lost his brother in Vietnam, a moment that is chronicled in the movie.
The 1969 football season was one of the best for the University of Texas as well as for Freddie. After WRHS I went for 3 years to CSU, then transferred to the University of Denver for my BA and MA in Speech Pathology. Finn Wittrock as Feddie Steinmark and Sarah Bolger as Linda Wheeler in Clarius Entertainment’s “My All American.” ... football biopic about Freddie Joe Steinmark, who in … Gloria, widowed in 2000, still has her son’s Cotton Bowl game ball. I retired after 44 years at Craig Hospital in December of 2016. They are memorials. HOUSTON, June 6 (UPI)— Freddie Steinmark, a defensive back on the 1969 national champion Texas Longhorn foot ball team who became a na tional symbol of … This biopic is another chapter in the ongoing secular hagiography of Freddie Steinmark. What an incredible story. A personal message by special envoy was sent to the family by President Nixon. Six months after they took the left leg of Freddie Steinmark, he returned to the Houston tumor clinic for another of his nervewracking checkups. Linda Wheeler, his almost lifelong girlfriend, followed him to the University of Texas. I worked at Craig Hospital from 1972, many years as a speech pathologist, then the director of Quality Management. He was 22. Unfortunately, Freddie died … I heard with anguish of his cancer shortly after the game and how he tried so hard to compete in the game. Theatrical Release: November 13, 2015 / Running Time: 119 Minutes / Rating: PG Director: Angelo Pizzo / Writers: Angelo Pizzo (screenplay); Jim Dent (book Courage Beyond the Game: The Freddie Steinmark Story) Cast: Aaron Eckhart (Coach Darrell Royal), Finn Wittrock (Freddie Steinmark), Sarah Bolger (Linda Wheeler), Robin Tunney (Gloria Steinmark), Michael Reilly Burke … "The people who were involved, even from the financier point of view, the people in Texas, it was a special movie to be part of," said Bolger, who plays Freddie's girlfriend, Linda Wheeler. It’s Freddie’s nephew Freddie Joe Steinmark, son of his brother Sammy. They stayed together except for a short stretch of time when Freddie found out he had cancer, but the reconciled and got engaged. Having played on an opposing team during Freddie's career I was somewhat knowledgeable of his challenges. Freddie Steinmark died on June 6, 1971 at the age of 22. They dated from junior high through high school and now in college and they planned to be married after graduation. And his short life has so far generated two biographies, including Jim Dent’s “Courage Beyond the Game: The Freddie Steinmark Story,” on which the film is based. Funeral Home Services for Linda are being provided by Croley Funeral Home. He’s memorialized on the scoreboard at the university’s football stadium. Steinmark died in 1971 after penning a memoir. Freddie proposed to his longtime girlfriend Linda Wheeler after a brief separation but before they were to be married, Freddie began to fall in and out of coma.