touchdowns against the Dallas Cowboys. For the 1960 season, he rushed for 872 yards, a Lions single-season record and the fourth highest total in the NFL that year. He was also selected to play in the Pro Bowl and was named the most valuable player on the 1960 Lions team. In 1961, Pietrosante rushed for 841 yards, again the fourth most in the NFL, and was selected to play in the Pro Bowl for the second consecutive year. Between 1959 and 1965, Pietrosante set a Lions' franchise record with 3,933 rushing yards. In September 1966, shortly before the start of the 1966 NFL regular season, the Lions' head coach Harry Gilmer placed Pietrosante on waivers. Days later, he was signed by the Cleveland Browns, who had lost the services of Jim Brown after the 1965 season. However, Pietrosante saw limited action for the Browns, carrying the ball only 17 times for 93 yards during the 1966 and 1967 seasons. In July 1968, Pietrosante announced at age 30 that he was retiring from the NFL. Family and later years Pietrosante was married to Geraldine Marie Cox, a nurse from Connecticut, in 1957. They had two daughters, Stacy and Cindy, and one son, Nicholas Judd. After retiring from the NFL, he began a business career in the Detroit area. His business interests included an insurance agency (the Schmidt-Barr-Pietrosante Agency) operated with former teammates Joe Schmidt and Terry Barr, a manufacturers representative company (Nick Pietrosante Associates), and a partial ownership interest in the Dearborn Racquet Club. In February 1988, Pietrosante died of prostate cancer at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, at age 50. References 1937 births 1988 deaths American football fullbacks Notre Dame Fighting Irish football players Detroit Lions players Cleveland Browns players Western Conference Pro Bowl players People from Derby, Connecticut Players of American football from Connecticut