Paul Rochester

Tackle, American football player

1938 –

57

Who is Paul Rochester?

Paul "Rocky" Rochester is a former American football defensive tackle. He played for the Dallas Texans/Kansas City Chiefs and the New York Jets in the American Football League. He played college football at Michigan State University.

He was an American Football League All-Star in 1961, and he earned an AFL Championship ring with the New York Jets in 1968 and had the only sack of the game; as well as a World Championship with the Jets after the 1968 season, when he was team co-captain in the Jets' destruction of the NFL Champion Baltimore Colts. Rochester is one of only twenty players who played the entire ten years of the AFL's existence.

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Born
Jul 15, 1938
Lansing
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Michigan State University

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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