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An American football player is an individual who participates in games of American football. The type includes professional and amateur football players, as well as international American football players. For more information, please see the Freebase wiki page on American football player.
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| x Bill Walsh |
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William Ernest "Bill" Walsh (November 30, 1931 – July 30, 2007) was a head coach for the San Francisco 49ers and Stanford Cardinal football team, during which time he popularized the West Coast offense.
Walsh went 102–63–1 with the 49ers, winning...
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| x Bert Bell | Quarterback |
De Benneville "Bert" Bell (February 25, 1895 – October 11, 1959) was the National Football League (NFL) commissioner from 1946 until his death in 1959. As commissioner, he helped chart a path for the NFL to facilitate its rise in becoming the most...
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| x Johnny Unitas |
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Quarterback |
John Constantine Unitas ( /juːˈnaɪtɨs/; May 7, 1933 – September 11, 2002), known as Johnny Unitas or "Johnny U", and nicknamed "The Golden Arm", was a professional American football player in the 1950s through the 1970s, spending the majority of his...
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| x Jack Kemp |
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Jack French Kemp (July 13, 1935 – May 2, 2009) was an American politician and a collegiate and professional football player. A Republican, he served as Housing Secretary in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993, having...
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| x Byron White |
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Halfback |
Byron Raymond "Whizzer" White (June 8, 1917 – April 15, 2002) won fame both as a football halfback and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Appointed to the court by President John F. Kennedy in 1962, he served until...
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| x Jim Thorpe |
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Running back |
James Francis "Jim" Thorpe (Sac and Fox (Sauk): Wa-Tho-Huk, translated to "Bright Path") (May 28, 1888 – March 28, 1953) was an American athlete of mixed ancestry (Caucasian and Native American). Considered one of the most versatile athletes of...
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| x Terry Bradshaw |
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Quarterback |
Terry Paxton Bradshaw (born September 2, 1948) is a former American football quarterback with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League (NFL). He is currently a TV analyst and co-host of Fox NFL Sunday. He played 14 seasons with...
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| x Eddie George |
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Running back |
Edward Nathan George, Jr. (born September 24, 1973) is a former American college and professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons. He played college football for Ohio State University and...
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| x Bronko Nagurski | Running back |
Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski (November 3, 1908 – January 7, 1990) was a Canadian-born American football player. He was also a successful professional wrestler, recognized as a multiple-time world heavyweight champion.
Nagurski was born in Rainy River...
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| x William Perry |
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Defensive tackle |
William Anthony Perry (born December 16, 1962) is a former American college and professional football player who was a defensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for ten seasons during the 1980s and 1990s. Perry played college football...
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| x Randy White | Linebacker |
Randall Lee "Randy" White (born January 15, 1953) is a former American football defensive lineman and linebacker. He attended the University of Maryland from 1971 to 1974, and played professionally for the Dallas Cowboys from 1975 to 1988. He is a...
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| x Curly Lambeau |
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Running back |
Earl Louis "Curly" Lambeau (April 9, 1898 – June 1, 1965) was founder, player, and first coach of the Green Bay Packers professional American football team. He shares the distinction with rival George Halas of the Chicago Bears of coaching his team...
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| x Emmitt Smith |
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Running back |
Emmitt James Smith, III (born May 15, 1969) is a retired American football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for fifteen seasons during the 1990s and 2000s. Smith played college football for the University of...
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| x Sid Gillman | Tight end |
Sidney "Sid" Gillman (October 26, 1911 – January 3, 2003) was an American football player, coach, executive, and innovator. Gillman's insistence on stretching the football field by throwing deep downfield passes, instead of short passes to running...
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| x Jim McMahon |
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Quarterback |
James Robert "Jim" McMahon, Jr. (born August 21, 1959) is a former American football player. He played college football at Brigham Young University, where he was a two-time All-American (1980, 1981) and later in the professional ranks with the...
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| x O. J. Simpson |
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Running back |
Orenthal James "O. J." Simpson (born July 9, 1947), nicknamed "The Juice", is a retired American college and professional football player, football broadcaster and actor. Simpson was a running back, the American Football League's Buffalo Bills'...
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| x Barry Sanders |
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Running back |
Barry Sanders (born July 16, 1968) is a former American football running back who spent all of his professional career with the Detroit Lions of the National Football League. Sanders left the game just short of the all-time rushing record. Sanders...
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| x Jeff Garcia |
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Jeffrey Jason "Jeff" Garcia (born February 24, 1970) is an American football quarterback who is currently a free agent. He played college football at San Jose State University.
A four-time CFL All-Star and four-time NFL Pro Bowl selection, Garcia...
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| x Doug Flutie |
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Quarterback |
Douglas Richard "Doug" Flutie (born October 23, 1962) is a former American and Canadian football quarterback. Flutie played college football at Boston College, and played professionally in the National Football League, Canadian Football League, and...
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| x Tom Landry |
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Cornerback |
Thomas Wade "Tom" Landry (September 11, 1924 – February 12, 2000) was an American football player and coach. He is ranked as one of the greatest and most innovative coaches in National Football League (NFL) history, creating many new formations and...
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| x Bob Lilly | Defensive tackle |
Robert Lewis Lilly (born July 26, 1939 in Olney, Texas-) is a former American football defensive tackle in the National Football League and photographer. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1980.
Lilly played college football at...
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| x Warren Moon |
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Quarterback |
Harold Warren Moon (born November 18, 1956) is a former American professional gridiron football quarterback who played for the Canadian Football League's Edmonton Eskimos and the National Football League's Houston Oilers, Minnesota Vikings, Seattle...
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| x Bob Sapp |
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Guard |
Robert Malcolm "Bob" Sapp (Japanese: [Bobbu Sappu]; born September 22, 1974) is an American kickboxer, mixed martial artist, professional wrestler, actor, comedian and former professional American football player. Sapp currently has a combined fight...
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| x Fritz Pollard | Running back |
Frederick Douglass "Fritz" Pollard (January 27, 1894 – May 11, 1986) was the first African American head coach in the National Football League (NFL). Pollard along with Bobby Marshall were the first two African American players in the NFL in 1920....
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| x Dan Marino |
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Quarterback |
Daniel Constantine "Dan" Marino, Jr. (born September 15, 1961) is a retired American football quarterback who played for the Miami Dolphins in the National Football League. The last quarterback of the Quarterback Class of 1983 to be taken in the...
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| x Jay Berwanger | Running back |
John Jacob "Jay" Berwanger (March 19, 1914 – June 26, 2002) was an American football halfback born in Dubuque, Iowa. He was the first winner of the Downtown Athletic Club Trophy in 1935 (the following year the award was renamed the Heisman Trophy);...
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| x Tex Schramm |
Texas Earnest "Tex" Schramm, Jr. (June 2, 1920 - July 15, 2003) was the original president and general manager of the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys franchise. Schramm became the head of the Cowboys when the former expansion team started...
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| x Fran Tarkenton |
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Francis Asbury "Fran" Tarkenton (born February 3, 1940) is a former professional football player, TV personality, and computer software executive.
He is best known for playing with the Minnesota Vikings and New York Giants, as well as serving as a...
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| x Alan Page | Defensive tackle |
Alan Cedric Page (born August 7, 1945) is an associate justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He graduated from Central Catholic High School in 1963, received his B.A. in political science from the...
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| x Jim Finks | Quarterback |
James Edward Finks (August 31, 1927 – May 8, 1994) was an American sports executive, primarily for American Professional Football.
Jim Finks was born in St. Louis, Missouri, attended high school in Salem, Illinois, and attended college at the...
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| x Paul Krause | Safety |
Paul James Krause (born February 19, 1942) is a former American football defensive back who played in the National Football League. He set the NFL record for interceptions with 81, which he picked off from 45 different quarterbacks, and was inducted...
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| x Ron Yary | Offensive tackle |
Anthony Ronald "Ron" Yary (born July 16, 1946) is a former professional American football offensive tackle, playing primarily for the Minnesota Vikings and also for the Los Angeles Rams. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2001. Yary...
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| x Korey Stringer | Offensive tackle |
Korey Damont Stringer (May 8, 1974 – August 1, 2001) was an American college and professional football player who was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for six seasons. He played college football for Ohio State University and...
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| x Larry Csonka | Running back |
Larry Richard Csonka (born December 25, 1946) is a former collegiate and professional American football fullback and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
One of six children, Csonka was born in Stow, Ohio where he was raised on a farm by his...
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| x Joe Namath |
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Quarterback |
Joseph William "Joe" Namath (pronounced /ˈneɪmɨθ/; born May 31, 1943), nicknamed "Broadway Joe" or "Joe Willie", is a former American football quarterback. He played college football for the University of Alabama under coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and...
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| x Sid Luckman | Quarterback |
Sidney Luckman, known as Sid Luckman, (November 21, 1916 – July 5, 1998) was an American football quarterback for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL) from 1939 to 1950. During his 12 seasons with the Bears he led them to four NFL...
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| x Jim Kelly | Quarterback |
James Edward Kelly (born February 14, 1960) is a former American football quarterback in the NFL for the Buffalo Bills and the USFL's Houston Gamblers.
Kelly was the third quarterback drafted in the 1983 NFL Draft, the same draft class where John...
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| x Elbert Dubenion | Wide receiver |
Elbert Dubenion (nicknamed "Duby" or "Golden Wheels") (born February 16, 1933 in Griffin, Georgia) was an American football wide receiver. He played college football for Bluffton College in northwest Ohio.
As a rookie for the American Football...
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| x Joe Montana |
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Quarterback |
Joseph Clifford "Joe" Montana, Jr. (born June 11, 1956), nicknamed Joe Cool, Golden Joe, The Golden Great and Comeback Joe, is a retired professional football player, a hall of fame quarterback with the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs....
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| x Steve Young |
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Quarterback |
Jon Steven "Steve" Young (born October 11, 1961) is a former American college and professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for fourteen seasons during the 1980s and 1990s. Young played college football...
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| x Mike Ditka |
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Tight end |
Michael Keller Ditka, Jr. (born October 18, 1939) is a former American football NFL player, television commentator, and coach. Ditka coached the Chicago Bears for 11 years and New Orleans Saints for three years. Ditka and Tom Flores are the only two...
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| x Bill Parcells |
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Duane Charles "Bill" Parcells (born August 22, 1941) is a former American football head coach, most recently with the Dallas Cowboys from 2003 to 2006. He is known as "The Big Tuna", a nickname about the shape of his physique derived from a team...
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| x John Elway |
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Quarterback |
John Albert Elway, Jr. (born June 28, 1960) is a former American football quarterback and currently is the executive vice president of football operations for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at...
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| x Billy Shaw |
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Offensive Lineman |
William Lewis "Billy" Shaw (born December 15, 1938 in Natchez, Mississippi) is an American former college and professional football player.
Drafted in 1961 by the American Football League's Buffalo Bills, Billy Shaw of Georgia Tech was the...
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| x Cookie Gilchrist | Running back |
Carlton Chester "Cookie" Gilchrist (May 25, 1935 – January 10, 2011) was a gridiron football player in the American Football League and Canadian Football League.
A star player at Har-Brack High School (Natrona Heights, Pa), in 1953 he led the team...
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| x Ernie Warlick |
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Tight end |
Ernest "Ernie" "Big Hoss" Warlick (born July 21, 1932 in Washington, D.C.) is a former tight end from North Carolina Central University who played American collegiate and Professional Football as well as Canadian Professional Football. After...
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| x Fred Taylor |
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fred-taylor-taylofr01 | Running back |
Frederick Antwon Taylor (born January 27, 1976) is a former American college and professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for thirteen seasons during the 1990s and 2000s. He played college football...
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| x David Kopay | Running back |
David Marquette Kopay (born June 28, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former American football running back in the National Football League who in 1975 became one of the first professional athletes to come out as gay.
Kopay attended Notre Dame High...
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| x Gino Cappelletti |
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Wide receiver |
Gino Cappelletti (born March 26, 1934) is a former American collegiate and Professional Football player. He played at the University of Minnesota, and was a star in the American Football League for the Boston Patriots. He was the 1964 American...
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| x Ron Burton | Running back |
Ronald E. "Ron" Burton (July 25, 1936 – September 13, 2003) became a college All-American running back at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, a member of the Northwestern Hall of Fame, and a member of the College Football Hall of Fame....
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| x Tony Dorsett |
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Running back |
Anthony "Tony" Drew Dorsett (born April 7, 1954) is a former American football running back in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos.
The son of Wes and Myrtle, Dorsett grew up in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, near...
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| x Mike Stratton | Linebacker |
David Michael Stratton (born April 10, 1941 in Vonore, Tennessee) was an American football linebacker in the AFL and NFL for the Buffalo Bills and San Diego Chargers.
Drafted out of the University of Tennessee in the 13th round of the 1962 AFL Draft...
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| x John Hadl | Quarterback |
John Willard Hadl (born February 15, 1940) is a former collegiate and professional football player.
Hadl was born in Lawrence, Kansas. After playing halfback on both offense and defense at the University of Kansas as a sophomore, Hadl played...
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| x Keith Lincoln | Running back |
Keith Payson Lincoln (born May 8, 1939 in Reading, Michigan) is a former American football running back who started his career playing college football at Washington State University. He maintained his versatility after being drafted by the American...
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| x Paul Lowe | Running back |
Paul Edward Lowe (born September 27, 1936 in Homer, Louisiana) is a retired American football running back who played for the Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League from 1960 to 1969.
Lowe attend Oregon...
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| x Daryle Lamonica | Quarterback |
Daryle Pat Lamonica (born July 17, 1941 in Fresno, California) is a former American collegiate and professional football quarterback who played in the American Football League, and later in the NFL.
Lamonica lettered in four sports and was an All...
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| x Tom Flores |
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Quarterback |
Thomas R. "Tom" Flores (born March 21, 1937) is a retired American football quarterback and coach. Flores and Mike Ditka are the only two people in the National Football League history to win a Championship (1 AFL Championship, Super Bowl XI as an...
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| x Lionel Taylor | Wide receiver |
Lionel Thomas Taylor (born August 15, 1935, in Kansas City, Missouri) is a former American football wide receiver who led the American Football League (AFL) in receptions each year for the first six years of the league's existence.
Taylor attended...
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| x Gene Mingo | Running back |
Eugene L. Mingo (born September 22, 1938 in Akron, Ohio) is a former professional American football player who played several positions including halfback, placekicker, and return specialist. He is widely recognized as the first African American...
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| x Floyd Little |
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Halfback |
Floyd Douglas Little (born July 4, 1942) is a Pro Football Hall of Fame running back, and was a three-time American football All-American running back at Syracuse University. In 1967 he was the 6th selection of the first common AFL-NFL draft. He was...
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