Ernie Rosteck

{{Short description|American football player (1922–1986)}}

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| name = Ernie Rosteck

| image = Ernie Rosteck.jpg

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| caption = Rosteck, 1947

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| position = Center

| birth_date = {{birth date|1922|05|12}}

| birth_place = Detroit, Michigan, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1986|03|01|1922|05|12}}

| death_place = Waterloo, Iowa, U.S.

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 1

| weight_lbs = 218

| high_school = Southeastern (MI)

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| pastteams = * Detroit Lions (1943–1944)

• Los Angeles Bulldogs (1945–1946)
• Paterson Panthers (1947)

| highlights =

| statlabel1 = Games

| statvalue1 = 10

| pfr = RostEr20

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Ernest W. Rosteck (May 12, 1922 – March 1, 1986) was an American football player.

Rosteck was born in Detroit in 1922. He attended Detroit's Southeastern High School.

He played professional football in the National Football League (NFL) as a center for the Detroit Lions. He appeared in 10 NFL games during the 1943 and 1944 seasons.{{Cite web |title=Ernie Rosteck |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/R/RostEr20.htm |access-date=August 30, 2020 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |publisher=Sports Reference LLC}} He was released by the Lions in September 1945.{{Cite news |date=September 18, 1945 |title=Lions Sell Jack Lowther and Drop Eleven Others |work=Detroit Free Press |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58331488/lions/ |via=Newspapers.com}} He also played professional football for the Los Angeles Bulldogs of the Pacific Coast Football League in 1945 and 1946 and the Patterson Panthers in 1947.{{cite web|title=Ernie Rosteck|publisher=Pro Football Archives|accessdate=February 11, 2022|url=https://www.profootballarchives.com/playerr/rost00200.html|archive-date=February 12, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220212063020/https://www.profootballarchives.com/playerr/rost00200.html|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|title=Panthers Announce Signing Of First Two Players For 1947: Ernie Rosteck, National League Star, Gives Paterson Club Second Outstanding Center|newspaper=The Morning Call|date=July 25, 1947|page=22|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94781162/panthers-announce-signing-of-first-two/|via=Newspapers.com}}

He later worked for John Deere as a machinist. He died of an apparent cardiac arrest in 1986 at Allen Memorial Hospital in Waterloo, Iowa.{{cite news|title=Ernest W. Rosteck|newspaper=The Courier|date=March 7, 1986|page=6|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94780997/obituary-for-ernest-w-rosteck-aged-63/|via=Newspapers.com}}