Dick Absher
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Position: | Linebacker |
Personal information | |
Born: | Washington, D.C. | April 19, 1944
Career information | |
College: | Maryland |
NFL Draft: | 1967 / Round: 5 / Pick: 125 |
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Career NFL statistics | |
Player stats at NFL.com · PFR |
Richard Alfred Absher, Jr. (born April 19, 1944) is a former American football linebacker (and sometimes kicker) in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins, Atlanta Falcons, New Orleans Saints, and the Philadelphia Eagles.[1] He played college football at the University of Maryland and was drafted in the fifth round of the 1967 NFL Draft by the Eagles.
Absher played for the New Orleans Saints when Tom Dempsey made his record-breaking kick of 63 yards against the Detroit Lions on November 8, 1970.
References[]
- ^ "Dick Absher". NFL.com. National Football League. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
Categories:
- 1944 births
- Living people
- American football linebackers
- Atlanta Falcons players
- Maryland Terrapins football players
- New Orleans Saints players
- Philadelphia Eagles players
- Players of American football from Washington, D.C.
- Washington Redskins players
- American football linebacker, 1940s birth stubs