Hubert J. Ulrich Jr. (December 12, 1920 – March 10, 1974) was an

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end. Ulrich was born in

Jennings, Oklahoma Jennings is a town in Pawnee County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 363 at the 2010 census, a 2.7 percent decline from the figure of 373 recorded in 2000.CensusViewer: Population of the City of Jennings, Oklahoma. Retrieved March 21 ...

, in 1920 but moved to southwest Kansas as a child. He attended Quinter High School in Kansas. He and played college football for

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, graduating in 1943. He was selected by the Cleveland Rams in the ninth round (72nd overall pick) of the

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. He did not play for the Rams, instead joining the Naval Reserve and serving as commander of a P.T. boat in the Southwest Pacific. After the war, he played in the

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(AAFC) for the

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in 1946. He appeared in a total of 14 professional games, six of them as a starter, and caught four passes for 75 yards and a touchdown. He later served as a high school football coach and was a member of the Kansas Jayhawks coaching staff from 1950 to 1954. He then worked in the oil business for 15 years. He joined the Kansas motor vehicle department in 1969 and held various executive positions there until the time of his death. He died of a heart attack in 1974 at age 53 in

Topeka, Kansas Topeka ( ; Kansa language, Kansa: ; iow, Dópikˀe, script=Latn or ) is the Capital (political), capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the County seat, seat of Shawnee County, Kansas, Shawnee County. It is along the Kansas River in the ...

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