Vern Huffman
American football and basketball player (1914–1995)
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Richard Vernon Huffman (December 18, 1914 – March 18, 1995) was an American professional football and basketball player. He was born in Mooreland, Indiana and was raised in and around New Castle, Indiana.
Quarterback
Mooreland, Indiana, U.S.
Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.
Huffman in his Indiana basketball uniform, circa 1936 | |||||||||||||||
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| Positions | Halfback Quarterback | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | December 18, 1914 Mooreland, Indiana, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Died | March 18, 1995 (aged 80) Bloomington, Indiana, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 215 lb (98 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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| High school | New Castle (New Castle, Indiana) | ||||||||||||||
| College | Indiana | ||||||||||||||
| NFL draft | 1937: 3rd round, 27th overall pick | ||||||||||||||
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He played basketball for the New Castle High School team that won the Indiana state basketball championship in 1932.[1] He enrolled at Indiana University in 1932 and played both football and basketball there. He was an All-American in both basketball and football at Indiana and won the 1936 Chicago Tribune Silver Football as the best football player in the Big Ten Conference.[1]
He was drafted in the third round of the 1937 NFL Draft.[2] He played two seasons of professional football in the National Football League for the Detroit Lions in 1937 and 1938.[3][4] Huffman later managed a dairy and worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.[5] He was inducted into the Indiana Hoosiers Hall of Fame in 1982.[6] Huffman died in 1995 at age 80 in Bloomington, Indiana.[1]
Huffman's brother Marv was also an All-American basketball player at Indiana and later played professionally with the Akron Goodyear Wingfoots of the National Basketball League.[7]
