Dalton Lloyd Truax Jr. (January 17, 1935 – August 15, 2019) was a professional

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

player. After growing up in New Orleans and lettering in multiple sports for

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including becoming Louisiana State Wrestling Heavyweight Champ, he went on an athletic scholarship to

Tulane University Tulane University, officially the Tulane University of Louisiana, is a private research university in New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded as the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834 by seven young medical doctors, it turned into a comprehensive pub ...

. Shortly before the 1957 season, the Green Bay Packers traded him to the New York Giants for a 1958 third-round selection in which they chose future Hall of Famer

Ray Nitschke Raymond Ernest Nitschke (December 29, 1936 – March 8, 1998) was a professional American football middle linebacker who spent his entire 15-year National Football League (NFL) career with the in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in , he was the a ...

. He played for the Oakland Raiders during the

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. He died at his home in 2019, aged 84.

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1935 births 2019 deaths Oakland Raiders players Tulane Green Wave football players Players of American football from New Orleans Holy Cross High School, New Orleans alumni American Football League players {{Amfoot-bio-stub