Chuck Cecil

Charles Douglas Cecil (born November 8, 1964) is an American football coach and former player who is the defensive secondary coach of the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He is also a former NFL Pro Bowl safety.

Early years

Cecil was born in Red Bluff, California. He grew up in Hanford, CA. He graduated from Helix High School in La Mesa, California where he was a standout player on a defense which set a school record for fewest points allowed per game and won a state title. At 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) and 150 lb (68 kg) (at the time), Cecil was considered too small to be a collegiate star and thus was not offered a scholarship out of high school.

College

He attended the University of Arizona where he walked-on for the Arizona Wildcats football team. He proved the recruiters wrong by eventually earning consensus All-America and Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year honors after his nine-interception senior season. When Cecil left Arizona, he held the Pac-10 record for career interceptions, with 21 (Lamont Thompson later broke the mark with 24), and set the Wildcats' school single-game record (and tied the Pac-10 record) with four interceptions against Stanford in 1987.

Chuck Cecil (broadcaster)

Chuck Cecil (born December 26, 1922) is a veteran Los Angeles radio broadcaster and longtime host of the syndicated program "The Swingin' Years", a "Best of" radio show for the "big band" era in music, which lasted from 1935 to 1955.

Early Years

Cecil was born and raised on an Oklahoma ranch. A severe drought during the Great Depression forced Chuck's family west, to Los Angeles, California, where they settled in the San Fernando Valley. There, Cecil attended Van Nuys High School alongside future actresses Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe (who went by the name Norma Jeane Baker at the time). In fact, Cecil was a guest at Monroe's wedding to Jim Dougherty in 1942.

That same year, Cecil landed his first radio job at KVEC in San Luis Obispo, California. By December, he had been called to active duty by the Navy. Cecil was accepted for the Navy's V-5 pilot training program, flying for Grumman. When the war ended, Chuck was serving in a replacement squad waiting for his first combat assignment which never came.