Kenneth Emery Nix (December 1, 1919 – December 6, 2005) was an

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 ...

quarterback The quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB"), colloquially known as the "signal caller", is a position in gridiron football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive platoon and mostly line up directly behind the offensive line. In modern Ame ...

in the

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. He played for the New York Giants. He played college football for the

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1919 births 2005 deaths American football quarterbacks New York Giants players TCU Horned Frogs football players People from Chillicothe, Texas People from Blanco, Texas {{Quarterback-1910s-stub