Tom Forrestal

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

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{{Infobox college football player

|name = Tom Forrestal

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|currentposition = Quarterback

|currentnumber = 18

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1936|10|23}}

|birth_place = Ohio, U.S.

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|school=Navy Midshipmen

|pastschools = United States Naval Academy (1955–1957)

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|class=Graduate

|highlights =

• First-team All-American (1957)
• First-team All-Eastern (1957)

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Thomas Patrick Forrestal, Jr. (born October 23, 1936) is a former American football player. He grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and attended St. Ignatius High School there. He then enrolled at the United States Naval Academy where he played college football at the quarterback position for the Navy Midshipmen football team from 1955 to 1957.{{cite news|title=Forrestal Big Name In Navy Grid, Too|newspaper=The Milwaukee Sentinel|author=Herb Thompson|date=November 17, 1956|page=C3|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19571117&id=511QAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9w8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=2271,2998944}} He was selected by the International News Service as a first-team player on its 1957 College Football All-America Team.{{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}}