Life After Football
Bachman was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as an "honorary letter winner" in 1971, and later, the College Football Hall of Fame in 1978. He died in Port Charlotte, Florida in 1985; he was 93 years old. Bachman was survived by his wife Grace and their three sons, including noted software engineer Charles W. Bachman.
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Famous quotes containing the words life and/or football:
“It is not enough that our life is an easy one. We must live on the stretch, retiring to our rest like soldiers on the eve of a battle, looking forward to the strenuous sortie of the morrow.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“You can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.”
—Frank Zappa (1940–1993)