Bobby Maples
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Position: | Center / Linebacker | ||||||
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Born: | Mount Vernon, Texas | December 28, 1942||||||
Died: | February 15, 1991 | (aged 48)||||||
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College: | Baylor | ||||||
NFL Draft: | 1965 / Round: 3 / Pick: 41 | ||||||
AFL Draft: | 1965 / Round: 4 / Pick: 26 (by the Houston Oilers)[1] | ||||||
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Bobby Ray Maples (December 28, 1942 – February 15, 1991) was an American football center and linebacker. He was born in Mount Vernon, Texas, which is also the birthplace of Don Meredith. Maples and his older brother Butch played collegiately for Baylor University and for respectively for NFL & AFL teams. Bobby Maples played professionally in the American Football League where he was an All-Star in 1968 with the Houston Oilers He also played for the National Football League's Pittsburgh Steelers and Denver Broncos before retiring in 1978.
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- ^ "1965 AFL Draft". Retrieved March 23, 2017.
Categories:
- 1942 births
- 1991 deaths
- People from Mount Vernon, Texas
- Players of American football from Texas
- American football linebackers
- American football centers
- Baylor Bears football players
- Houston Oilers players
- Pittsburgh Steelers players
- Denver Broncos players
- American Football League All-Star players
- American Football League players
- American football offensive lineman, 1940s birth stubs
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