Dick Absher

Linebacker, American football player

1944 –

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Who is Dick Absher?

Richard Alfred Absher, Jr. is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins, Atlanta Falcons, New Orleans Saints, and the Philadelphia Eagles. He played college football at the University of Maryland and was drafted in the fifth round of the 1967 NFL Draft by the Eagles.

Absher played for the New Orleans Saints when Tom Dempsey made his record breaking kick of 63 yards against the Detroit Lions on November 8, 1970.

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Born
Apr 19, 1944
Washington, D.C.
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • University of Maryland, College Park
Lived in
  • Washington, D.C.

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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