Bob Stransky

{{short description|American football player (born 1936)}}

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{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Bob Stransky

| number = 22

| position = Halfback, tailback, safety

| birth_date = January 30, 1936

| birth_place = Yankton, South Dakota, U.S.

| college = Colorado

| pastteams =

• Winnipeg Blue Bombers ({{CFL Year|1958}})
• BC Lions ({{CFL Year|1959}})
• Denver Broncos (1960)

| highlights =

• First-team All-American (1957)
• First-team All-Big Eight (1957)
• Second-team All-Big Seven (1956)

| pfr = S/StraBo00

}}

Robert J. Stransky (born January 30, 1936) is an American former professional football player. He grew up in Yankton, South Dakota, and attended the University of Colorado where he played college football at the tailback and safety positions for the Colorado Buffaloes football team from 1956 to 1957.{{cite news|title=Star of a strange game: Today's football far from that of CU great's time|author=Irv Moss|newspaper=Denver Post|date=November 7, 2005|url=http://www.denverpost.com/moss/ci_3190271}} He finished the 1957 season ranked second in the country with 1,097 rushing yards, and he was selected by the Football Writers Association of America and the International News Service as a first-team back on their respective 1957 College Football All-America Teams.{{cite web|title=FWAA All-America Since 1944: The All-Time Team|editor=Ted Gangi|accessdate=February 8, 2015|url=http://www.sportswriters.net/fwaa/awards/allamerica/alltime.pdf|archive-date=March 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190304073432/http://www.sportswriters.net/fwaa/awards/allamerica/alltime.pdf|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|title=Crow, Forrestal Picked on INS All-America|newspaper=Reading Eagle|date=November 24, 1957|page=38|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19571124&id=LoYtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Q5oFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3016,3655813}} He later played football in the Canadian Football League (CFL) as a halfback for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (1958) and BC Lions (1959).,{{cite web|title=Player database|accessdate=February 16, 2015|publisher=cflapedia|url=http://www.cflapedia.com/Database/s.htm}} and in 1960 with the Denver Broncos of the American Football League. He was inducted into the University of Colorado Athletic Hall of Fame in 2010.{{cite web|title=Colorado Athletic Hall Of Fame Profile: Bob Stransky|author=Josh Pape|accessdate=February 16, 2015|url=http://www.cubuffs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=205026011}}