Duane Douglas Allen (October 21, 1937 – May 7, 2003) 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 with ...
tight end
The tight end (TE) is a position in American football, arena football, and Canadian football, on the offense. The tight end is often a hybrid position with the characteristics and roles of both an offensive lineman and a wide receiver. Like ...
in the
National Football League
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. He was the Santa Ana College's Athlete of the Year and the Eastern Conference Lineman of the Year. He was drafted in 1961 by the Los Angeles Rams in the ninth round of the NFL draft. He spent seven years in the NFL playing for the Los Angeles Rams (1961–64), Baltimore Colts (1965-66) and Chicago Bears (1967). He was born in Alhambra, California in 1937. He died at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena after having suffered a stroke on April 11, 2003.
References
External links
NFL.com profile*
1937 births
2003 deaths
Sportspeople from Alhambra, California
Players of American football from California
American football tight ends
Los Angeles Rams players
Pittsburgh Steelers players
Chicago Bears players
Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)
Santa Ana Dons football players
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