Piccolo was diagnosed with cancer and underwent treatment, which included surgery and cobalt treatments. When Gale Sayers was injured in 1968, Piccolo played the last four games of the season and part of the 1969 season.
He won the Arnold Palmer award as Wake Forest’s athlete of the year and he was named the Atlantic Coast Conference football player of the year.Īfter his senior year, Piccolo was not drafted, so he joined the Chicago Bears as a free agent.
He played football and was awarded many honors, such as the most valuable player for two years. He came to Winston-Salem when he enrolled at Wake Forest College. He attended Central Catholic High School in Ft. Louis Brian Piccolo was born on this day in 1943, in Massachusetts.