Native of Oklahoma City...was an All-America tackle at the University of Oklahoma and an eighth-round draft pick by Buffalo in 1968... started eight games as a guard in '68 and was voted the team's top rookie...began fulfilling his ROTC obligation with the United States Army following the '68 season and started his tour of duty in Vietnam in November of 1969...was killed by mortar fire on July 21, 1970 while defending Ripcord Base on an isolated jungle mountaintop near Vietnam's Ashua Valley...is the only professional football player killed in Vietnam...selection to the Wall of Fame took place on what would have been his 55th birthday, April 13, 2000.
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