Bill Blackburn
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Position: | Center | ||||||
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Born: | Weleetka, Oklahoma, U.S. | February 5, 1923||||||
Died: | April 17, 2007 | (aged 84)||||||
Height: | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) | ||||||
Weight: | 228 lb (103 kg) | ||||||
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High school: | Houston (TX) Stephen F. Austin | ||||||
College: | Rice | ||||||
NFL draft: | 1944 / round: 5 / pick: 33 | ||||||
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William Whitford Blackburn Jr. (February 5, 1923 – April 17, 2007) was a professional American football player who played center for six seasons for the Chicago Cardinals.
Alvin Dark was a halfback and teammate of Blackburn with the Southwestern Louisiana Institute in 1944. He recalled that "the joy for me was running behind Humble and Blackburn. I'd never seen such blocking."[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Dark, Alvin; Underwood, John (1980). When in Doubt, Fire the Manager: My Life and Times in Baseball. New York: E. P. Dutton. p. 35. ISBN 0-525-23264-8.