Colorado University Athletics
CU Athletic Hall of Fame
- Induction:
- 2014
- Class:
- 1972
- 1971 All-American
- Two-time All-Big Eight Conference first team
- 1970s All-Big Eight Decade Team
- 1972 first round NFL Draft pick by Detroit
- 2016 College Football Hall of Fame Inductee
A near consensus All-American as a senior in 1971, earning recognition from five organizations, including AFCA/Kodak, Walter Camp and The Sporting News (he was a third-team Associated Press team member) ... Honored as a Playboy Preseason All-American prior to his senior season, when he was one of CU’s team captains ... A two-time first-team All-Big Eight Conference performer as a junior and senior, and was the Big Eight Conference Newcomer of the Year as a sophomore in 1969, when he had 75 tackles, including 12 for losses (nine quarterback sacks) ... Selected as a member of the All-Big Eight Decade team for the 1970s ... His 20 career quarterback sacks would have ranked first at the time of his graduation, but they weren’t computed until several years later; his 32 tackles for loss at the end of his career did rank second ... He played as significant a role as anyone in CU’s 1971 season that saw the Buffaloes finish No. 3 in the nation, behind Nebraska and Oklahoma; he had 46 tackles, six for losses and three sacks ... The national lineman-of-the-week for his play in CU’s 41-13 win over Penn State on Sept. 13, 1970 that stopped the Nittany Lions unbeaten streak at 31 games (12 tackles, three for losses including two sacks) ... Joined the Army while in high school and earned his diploma overseas; he met then-CU head coach Eddie Crowder in Germany when the Buff boss was in Europe on a government-sponsored coaching tour ... A first round pick by Detroit in the 1972 NFL Draft (16th overall, the highest at the time that a CU defender had been selected) ... He played in 122 NFL games with (Detroit 1972-77) and Baltimore (1978-81) ... He was a second-team All-NFC performer at tackle for the Lions in 1975 ... In 1989, he was selected as a member of CU’s All-Century Football Team, honoring the first 100 years of the sport at the school ... Appeared on the ballot for the College Football Hall of Fame for the first time in 2014 and was inducted as a member of the 2016 class … Inducted into the Flint (Mich.) Hall of Fame in December 2019.
