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Position: | Halfback |
Personal information | |
Born: | La Mott, Pennsylvania, U.S. | April 18, 1926
Died: | November 8, 2018 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. | (aged 92)
Height: | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
Weight: | 170 lb (77 kg) |
Career information | |
College: | Penn State |
NFL draft: | 1949 / round: 19 / pick: 182 |
Career history | |
Player stats at PFR |
Wallace Triplett (April 18, 1926 – November 8, 2018) was a professional American football player, the first African-American draftee to play for a National Football League (NFL) team.[1] For that reason, his portrait hangs in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.