Stanley C. Shakespeare (February 5, 1963 – April 26, 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 with ...

wide receiver who attended

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, played

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at the

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and spent one season with the

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of the

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(NFL) during the 1987 NFLPA strike. He drowned on April 26, 2005, after being knocked off his boat by a large wave.

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