Eugene Marvin "Gene" Felker (March 4, 1929[1]–March 12, 2013) was an American football end in the National Football League for the Dallas Texans (1952). He played at the collegiate level at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
| No. 85 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Position: | End | ||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||
| Born: | March 4, 1929 Milwaukee, Wisconsin | ||||||||
| Died: | March 12, 2013 (aged 84) | ||||||||
| Career information | |||||||||
| College: | Wisconsin | ||||||||
| NFL draft: | 1952 / round: 19 / pick: 218 | ||||||||
| Career history | |||||||||
| |||||||||
| Career NFL statistics | |||||||||
| |||||||||
Felker was one of at least 345 NFL players to be diagnosed after death with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which is caused by repeated hits to the head.[2][3]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Gene Felker Stats". Pro-Football-Reference.com.
- ^ "The driving force behind Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)". Concussion Legacy Foundation. Archived from the original on July 2, 2023. Retrieved July 2, 2023.
- ^ Ken Belson and Benjamin Mueller (June 20, 2023). "Collective Force of Head Hits, Not Just the Number of Them, Increases Odds of C.T.E. The largest study of chronic traumatic encephalopathy to date found that the cumulative force of head hits absorbed by players in their careers is the best predictor of future brain disease". The New York Times. Retrieved July 2, 2023.
External links
edit
 | This biographical article relating to an American football tight end born in the 1920s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |