Rollie Boldt
{{Short description|American basketball player and coach (1904–1972)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Rollie Boldt
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1904|4|4}}{{cite web |title=Rollie Boldt |url=https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/player/rollie-boldt/ |website=Pro Basketball Encyclopedia |access-date=31 March 2024}}
| birth_place =
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1978|10|11|1900|5|27}}
| death_place = Maumee, Ohio, U.S.
| player_sport1 = Men's basketball
| player_years1 = 1923–1924
| player_team1 = National Supply
| player_years2 = 1924–1927
| player_team2 = Oak Harbor American Legion
| player_years3 = 1927
| player_team3 = Scott Shops
| player_years4 = 1927–1930
| player_team4 = Toledo Red Man Tobaccos
| player_positions = Guard
| coach_sport1 = Men's basketball
| coach_years1 = 1923–1930
| coach_team1 = Woodward Technical HS (OH) (Asst.)
| coach_years2 = 1930–1937
| coach_team2 = Point Place HS (OH)
| coach_years3 = 1944–1946
| coach_team3 = Toledo
| coach_years4 = 1947–1954
| coach_team4 = Toledo (Asst.)
| overall_record = 29–11 (NCAA)
| championships =
}}
Rolland Edward Boldt (April 4, 1904 – March 13, 1972) was an American basketball player and coach who was the head coach of the Toledo Rockets men's basketball team from 1944 to 1946.
Playing career
Boldt played basketball at Woodward Technical High School and was captain of the 1922–23 team.{{cite news |last1=Meade |first1=Dick |title=Random Shots |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_vNXAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA14&dq |access-date=31 March 2024 |work=The Toledo News-Bee |date=March 29, 1923}} After graduating, he played professionally and semiprofessionally for the National Supply, Oak Harbor American Legion, Scott Shops, and Toledo Red Man Tobaccos teams.
Coaching
Boldt served as an assistant at Woodward Tech while attending the University of Toledo. After graduating, he was the head basketball and baseball coach at Point Place High School. In 1932, the Point Place baseball team won the Class B District championship. The high school closed in 1937 after Point Place was annexed into the city of Toledo and Boldt became a teacher at the Point Place Junior High School.
Boldt returned to coaching in 1944, when he was named head basketball coach at the University of Toledo.{{cite news |title=Rollie Boldt Named U. Basketball Coach |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4t5OAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA16&dq |access-date=31 March 2024 |work=Toledo Blade |date=October 17, 1944}} Toledo played a limited schedule that season due to World War II and finished the year with a 9–4 record. The war ended in time for the school to arrange a stronger schedule for the 1945–46 season and the Rockets went 20–7. Boldt resigned after the season allow a full-time coach to be hired, but returned in 1947 as an assistant to Jerry Bush.{{cite news |last1=French |first1=Bob |title=Mirrors of Sport |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IvVOAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA58&dq |work=Toledo Blade |date=March 29, 1946}}{{cite news |last1=Rothman |first1=Seymour |title=Boldt And Bush See Eye-To-Eye |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LzkxAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA40&dq |access-date=31 March 2024 |work=Toledo Blade |date=January 22, 1950}} Boldt coached the team for the first two games of the 1952–53 season while Bush was away on a scouting trip.{{cite news |title=TU Cage Coach To Miss Rockets' Opening Game |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vvlOAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA23&dq |access-date=31 March 2024 |work=Toledo Blade |date=November 18, 1952}} He resigned in 1954, as the university wanted an assistant basketball coach who was a full-time staff member while Boldt did not want to lose his tenure in the Toledo City School District.{{cite news |title=Rollie Boldt Quits At TU As Assistant Cage Coach |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QPZOAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA15&dq |access-date=31 March 2024 |work=Toledo Blade |date=July 9, 1954}}
Later life
From 1949 until his retirement in 1966, Boldt was a social studies and orientation teacher at Macomber High School. In 1953, he coached the Macomber tennis team to the city championship. He also served as manager of the Jermain Park tennis courts from 1947 to 1965. He died on March 13, 1972, at St. Luke's Hospital.{{cite news |title=Rolland Boldt |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uM5OAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA7&dq |access-date=31 March 2024 |work=Toledo Blade |date=March 13, 1972}}
References
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{{Toledo Redmen 1929–30 NPBL champions}}
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Category:Basketball players from Toledo, Ohio
Category:High school basketball coaches in Ohio
Category:Schoolteachers from Ohio