Murry Bowden (born December 11, 1949) is former

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 ...

player. He was elected to the

College Football Hall of Fame The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and interactive attraction devoted to college football. The National Football Foundation (NFF) founded the Hall in 1951 to immortalize the players and coaches of college football that were vote ...

in 2003. He earned the

National Football Foundation The National Football Foundation (NFF) is a non-profit organization to promote and develop amateur American football on all levels throughout the United States and "developing the qualities of leadership, sportsmanship, competitive zeal and the dr ...

Outstanding Contribution to Amateur Football Award in 2018 for his contributions to the construction and management of the Atlanta

. Bowden graduated cum laude from

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...

with a degree in psychology, and from the

University of Texas School of Law The University of Texas School of Law (Texas Law) is the law school of the University of Texas at Austin. Texas Law is consistently ranked as one of the top law schools in the United States and is highly selective—registering the 8th lowest ac ...

. After graduating from Texas, he went on to found the Hanover Company, a real estate investment group.

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* 1949 births Living people American football linebackers Dartmouth Big Green football players College Football Hall of Fame inductees University of Texas School of Law alumni People from Colorado City, Texas Players of American football from Texas {{collegefootball-player-stub