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| | Rocky Mountain News: Other Sports |
 | | Rote, the son of a football legend, was captain of his basketball and baseball teams and starred at quarterback and safety in football in high school in Dallas. |
 | | After playing one year of football at Oklahoma State, Rote transferred to the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., where, as a paying student, he switched to soccer, considered a secondary sport. |
 | | Rote was a first-round draft pick of the North American Soccer League's Dallas Tornado in 1973 and, in the league's early days, he was considered the "Great American Hope." |
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