Bones Weatherly
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Position: | Linebacker |
Personal information | |
Born: | Houston, Texas | December 26, 1928
Died: | December 28, 2004 Cuero, Texas | (aged 76)
Height: | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) |
Weight: | 218 lb (99 kg) |
Career information | |
High school: | Cuero (TX) |
College: | RICE HALL OF FAME Rice and is a member of The Rice Owls Football Hall of Fame, with a football endowment scholarship in his name |
NFL Draft: | 1949 / Round: 8 / Pick: 72 |
Career history | |
Career NFL statistics | |
Player stats at NFL.com · PFR |
Gerald Craft "Bones" Weatherly (December 26, 1928 – December 28, 2004) was an American football linebacker who played five seasons with the Chicago Bears of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the eighth round of the 1949 NFL Draft. Weatherly retired mid-season 1955 with a broken leg. He played college football at Rice University and attended Cuero High School in Cuero, Texas.[1]
References[]
- ^ "GERRY WEATHERLY". profootballarchives.com. Archived from the original on April 18, 2015. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
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Categories:
- 1928 births
- 2004 deaths
- Players of American football from Houston
- American football linebackers
- Rice Owls football players
- Chicago Bears players
- People from Cuero, Texas
- American football linebacker, pre-1930s birth stubs