Michael Riegels, inaugural chairman of the Financial Services Commission of the British Virgin Islands
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Niels Ditlev Riegels (1755 - 1802), a Danish historian, journalist and author of critical pamphlets
After the game, coach Nibs Price defended Riegels, saying "It was an accident that might have happened to anyone."
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The character of "Lefty" Phelps in the movie Flight (1929), directed by Frank Capra, is based on Riegels and uses the incident to propel Phelps into the Marine Corps.
Michael Riegels, QC was the inaugural chairman of the Financial Services Commission of the British Virgin Islands.
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Michael Riegels was also part of the "gang of five" who drafted the original International Business Companies Act in 1984, the principal statute of the BVI's offshore finance industry for many years (and subsequently copied by a large number of competing offshore jurisdictions).
Going to the university at Riegels' suggestion, Chapman starred in football for the Golden Bears, being named an All-American for the 1937 Pacific Coast Conference and national champion "Thunder Team", which went on to win the 1938 Rose Bowl; the last time California has won the game.