Quentin Brian "Quent" Sickels (December 21, 1926 – April 24, 2018) was a former American football player.
He played three years of varsity football for Benton Harbor High School and led his team to the state championship as senior in 1943.
[2][8] On December 21, 1944, the day before his eighteenth birthday, Sickels joined the United States Coast Guard.
On leaving Ann Arbor, Sickels told reporters he hoped to return to the university after the war: "Michigan is a great school.
Crisler, [Biggie] Munn and the other coaches were a great[9] bunch of fellows, and I hope to come back and help beat the tar out of those guys at Ohio State.
[13] He played for the 1946 Michigan Wolverines football team that finished the season ranked #6 in the final Associated Press poll.
[16] Despite missing spring practice following the knee surgery,[17] Sickels was able to play at the defensive guard position for the undefeated 1947 Michigan Wolverines football team.
Quentin was rushing passers unmercifully, making innumerable tackles in the Southern California backfield ..."[21]As a senior, Sickels helped lead the 1948 Michigan Wolverines football team to its second consecutive undefeated, untied season and an undisputed national championship.
"[25] Sickels was selected by the Detroit Lions as the 147th pick in the 1948 NFL draft, but he chose a career in business.
[28][29] In 1958, Sickels returned to Detroit and became employed as a registered representative of Manley, Bennett & Company, a member of the New York Stock Exchange.
[30] After the death of his second wife Jeree in 2004, Quentin reconnected with Joanne Dart, whom he had met during the 1948 Rose Bowl.