Rudy Rintala played football, baseball, basketball, and threw the javelin on the track team at Stanford. He was best known as a baseball player, for which he was inducted into the Stanford University Athletic Hall of Fame. Rintala graduated with an accounting degree and then played football with San Francisco’s Olympic Club, during which time he played at the 1932 Olympic demonstration. Rintala later worked as an accountant for many years in the steel industry before going into private practice as a CPA in 1956, retiring in 1974.