Charles Alan Pastrana (November 20, 1944April 8, 2021) was an American football quarterback. He played college football for the University of Maryland from 1965 to 1968. In 1966, he set the Atlantic Coast Conference record for single-season passing touchdowns with 17. At Maryland, Pastrana also played on the lacrosse team and was named a first-team All-American defenseman in 1966. The Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL) selected Pastrana in the 11th round of the 1969 NFL Draft. He played for Denver for two seasons, including three games as the starting quarterback. After his playing career, Pastrana coached football, lacrosse and wrestling at Anne Arundel Community College, where he taught as an associate professor, and coached football at the Severn School. Early life Pastrana was born on November 20, 1944, in Annapolis, Maryland, to a father from Colombia and an American mother of Swiss ancestry. He attended Annapolis High School, where he served as the captain of the football, lacrosse, and wrestling teams. After he graduated from Annapolis High in 1964, Pastrana attended the college preparatory Severn School. College years Pastrana enrolled at the University of Maryland, where he earned three letters on the football team in 1965, 1966, and 1968, and two on the lacrosse team in 1966 and 1967. He played lacrosse as a defenseman under head coach John Howard. After the 1966 season, the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association named him a first-team All-American. In 1965, he played football on defense as a linebacker. The following season, Lou Saban took over as head coach from Tom Nugent, and held open quarterback try-outs, which included everyone who had played the position in high school. Early in the season, Saban dismissed several players "not good enough to play for Maryland", including former starting quarterback Phil Petry, and the job went to Pastrana. Saban employed a pro-style offense. After losses to Penn State and Syracuse, Pastrana led the underdog Maryland team to a surprising three-game winning streak over Duke, West Virginia, and South Carolina, which improbably placed the Terrapins atop the Atlantic Coast Conference and into the bowl game picture. Maryland, however, lost its final four games of the season to finish 4–6 and 3–3 in the ACC. In the penultimate game against Virginia, Pastrana broke the ACC record with his 13th and 14th touchdown passes of the season. Florida State routed Maryland in the season finale, 45–21, where