Butch Avinger
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Position: | Fullback Punter |
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Date of birth: | December 15, 1928 | ||||||||
Place of birth: | Beatrice, Alabama | ||||||||
Date of death: | August 20, 2008 | (aged 79)||||||||
Place of death: | Birmingham, Alabama | ||||||||
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College: | Alabama | ||||||||
NFL draft: | 1951 / Round: 1 / Pick: 9 (By the Pittsburgh Steelers) |
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Clarence "Butch" Edmund Avinger (December 15, 1928 – August 20, 2008) was a professional American football fullback and punter in the National Football League. At 6'1", 215 lb, Avinger was a 1st round selection (9th overall pick) of the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1951 NFL Draft out of the University of Alabama where he had played quarterback.[1] He only saw action in 1953 when he played for the New York Giants.
References
- ↑ "Honoring the Crimson Tide" (PDF). rolltide.com. Retrieved 2008-08-13.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
External links
- Stats from pro-football-reference.com
- "Butch Avinger". Find a Grave. Retrieved August 10, 2010.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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