Editing Roy Scheider (section)

== Early life ==
Scheider was born in [[Orange, New Jersey]],<ref name=NYTObit>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/movies/11scheider.html?hp |last=Kehr |first=David |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |title=Roy Scheider, Actor in "Jaws", Dies at 75 |date=February 10, 2008 |access-date=February 10, 2008 |page=6 |archive-date=August 7, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170807233158/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/movies/11scheider.html?hp |url-status=live}}</ref> the son of Anna (''née'' Crosson) and auto mechanic Roy Bernhard Scheider. Scheider's mother was of Irish descent with an [[Irish Catholic]] background, while his father was a [[Protestant]] [[German American]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Obituaries: Roy Scheider |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1578240/Roy-Scheider.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1578240/Roy-Scheider.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=July 9, 2012 |newspaper=[[The Telegraph (newspaper)|The Telegraph]] |date=February 11, 2008 |publisher=[[Telegraph Media Group Limited]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref>{{sfn|Kachmar|2002|p=5}} As a child, Scheider was an athlete, participating in organized baseball and [[boxing]] competitions, for which he was classed as a [[welterweight]], weighing in at 140&nbsp;lb (63.5&nbsp;kg). Scheider competed in the Diamond Gloves Boxing Tournament in [[Elizabeth, New Jersey]]. He attended [[Columbia High School (New Jersey)|Columbia High School]] in [[Maplewood, New Jersey]], graduating in 1950, and was inducted into the school's hall of fame in 1985. He traded his boxing gloves for the stage, studying drama at both [[Rutgers University]] and [[Franklin & Marshall College|Franklin and Marshall College]], where he was a member of [[Phi Kappa Psi]] fraternity.

===Amateur boxing===
Between 1946 and 1949, Scheider boxed as an amateur in New Jersey.<ref name="boxing-scoop1">{{cite web |work=Boxing-scoop.com |url=http://www.boxing-scoop.com/show_boxer.php?boxer_ID=12096 |title=Roy Scheider |access-date=February 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105200926/http://www.boxing-scoop.com/show_boxer.php?boxer_ID=12096 |archive-date=January 5, 2019}}</ref> Scheider said in a television interview in the 1980s that he took up boxing to lose weight. He said he had no desire to fight, but that his trainer, Georgie Ward, encouraged him to compete.{{sfn|Kachmar|2002|p=118}} In his second bout, at the 1946 Diamond Gloves Tournament ([[Golden Gloves]]), Scheider suffered a broken nose and lost by [[technical knockout]] in two rounds to Myron Greenberg. He went on to post an 11–1 (six knockouts) record,<ref name="boxing-scoop1"/> reversing his defeat by Greenberg in the process.<ref name="boxing-scoop1"/> <!-- This source lists a total of 12 fights and classes every one of them as an "unverified match -->

{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible collapsed" style="font-size:88%; text-align:left; white-space:nowrap;"
! '''Amateur boxing record: Roy Scheider''' (unverified)<ref name="boxing-scoop1"/>
|- style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:100%;"
!style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Result
!style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Opponent
!style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Method
!style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Date
!style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Round
!style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Time
!style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Event
!style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Location
!style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Notes
|-
| style="text-align:center;" {{Yes2}}Win
|align='left'|{{flagicon|USA}} Earl Garrett
|align='left'|KO
|align='left'|March 17, 1949
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|
|align='left'|
|[[Elizabeth, New Jersey]]
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|-
| style="text-align:center;" {{yes2}}Win
|align='left'|{{flagicon|USA}} Ted LaScalza
|align='left'|KO
|align='left'|March 12, 1949
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|
|align='left'|
|[[Jersey City, New Jersey]]
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|-
| style="text-align:center;" {{Yes2}}Win
|align='left'|{{flagicon|USA}} Peter Read
|align='left'|KO
|align='left'|February 17, 1949
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|
|align='left'|
|[[Elizabeth, New Jersey]]
|Scheider suffers nose injury; drops out of tournament.
|-
| style="text-align:center;" {{Yes2}}Win
|align='left'|{{flagicon|USA}} Nick Welling
|align='left'|KO
|align='left'|July 20, 1948
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|
|align='left'|
||Elizabeth, New Jersey
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|-
| style="text-align:center;" {{Yes2}}Win
|align='left'|{{flagicon|USA}} Jerry Gould
|align='left'|KO 
|align='left'|July 2, 1948
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|
|align='left'|
||Orange, New Jersey
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|-
| style="text-align:center;" {{Yes2}}Win
|align='left'|{{flagicon|USA}} Alfonse D'Amore
|align='left'|KO
|align='left'|March 2, 1948
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|
|align='left'|
|Orange, New Jersey
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|-
| style="text-align:center;" {{yes2}}Win
|align='left'|{{flagicon|USA}} Peter Read
|align='left'|TKO
|align='left'|February 21, 1948
| style="text-align:center;"|2
| style="text-align:center;"|
|align='left'|
|Elizabeth, New Jersey
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|-
| style="text-align:center;" {{Yes2}}Win
|align='left'|{{flagicon|USA}} Phillip Duncan
|align='left'|KO
|align='left'|February 19, 1948
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|
|align='left'|
|Elizabeth, New Jersey
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|-
| style="text-align:center;" {{Yes2}}Win
|align='left'|{{flagicon|USA}} Stewart Murphy
|align='left'|KO
|align='left'|April 1, 1947
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|0:16
|align='left'|Golden Gloves 
|New Jersey
|
|-
| style="text-align:center;" {{Yes2}}Win
|align='left'|{{flagicon|USA}} Myron Greenberg
|align='left'|KO
|align='left'|January 10, 1947
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|
|align='left'|Golden Gloves 
|New Jersey
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|-
| style="text-align:center;" {{no2}}Loss
|align='left'|{{flagicon|USA}} Myron Greenberg
|align='left'|TKO
|align='left'|January 11, 1946
| style="text-align:center;"|2
| style="text-align:center;"|
|align='left'|Golden Gloves 
|New Jersey
|Scheider's nose was broken.
|-
| style="text-align:center;" {{Yes2}}Win
|align='left'|{{flagicon|USA}} Frank Brayden
|align='left'|KO
|align='left'|January 9, 1946
| style="text-align:center;"|2
| style="text-align:center;"|
|align='left'|Golden Gloves 
|New Jersey
|
|}

=== Military service ===
Scheider served three years in the [[United States Air Force]] as a [[first lieutenant]] in [[Air traffic controller|air operations]] from 1955 to 1958. He then became a [[Captain (United States O-3)|captain]] in the [[Air Force Reserve Command]] until 1964.<ref name="MilitaryScheider">{{cite web|url=https://airforce.togetherweserved.com/usaf/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApps?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=173651|title=Scheider, Roy, Jr., Capt|publisher=www.airforce.togetherweserved.com|access-date=April 6, 2018|archive-date=June 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200603162939/https://airforce.togetherweserved.com/usaf/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApps?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=173651|url-status=live}}</ref>