Vern Huffman
Richard Vernon Huffman (December 18, 1914 – March 18, 1995) was an American football and basketball player. He was born in Mooreland, Indiana and was raised in and around New Castle, Indiana.
![]() Huffman in his Indiana basketball uniform, circa 1936 | |||||||||||||
Position: | Halfback, Quarterback | ||||||||||||
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Born: | Mooreland, Indiana | December 18, 1914||||||||||||
Died: | March 18, 1995 80) Bloomington, Indiana | (aged||||||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||||||
Weight: | 215 lb (98 kg) | ||||||||||||
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High school: | New Castle (New Castle, Indiana) | ||||||||||||
College: | Indiana | ||||||||||||
NFL Draft: | 1937 / Round: 3 / Pick: 27 | ||||||||||||
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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 played two seasons of professional football in the National Football League for the Detroit Lions in 1937 and 1938.[2][3] Huffman later managed a dairy and worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.[4] He was inducted into the Indiana Hoosiers Hall of Fame in 1982.[5] 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.[6]
References
- "VERNON HUFFMAN, IU FOOTBALL STAR OF '30S, DIES AT AGE 80". News-Sentinel (Ft. Wayne, IN). 1995-03-20.
- "Vern Huffman profile". pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
- "Huffman Big Ten's 'Most Valuable'". The Pittsburgh Press. 1936-12-27.
- "Indiana University Oral History Archive, 1991-1998". Indiana University. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
- "Hall of Fame - 1982 Inductees". Indiana University. Archived from the original on 2012-01-07. Retrieved 2012-01-07.
- Hiner, Jason (2013). Indiana University Basketball Encyclopedia. ISBN 9781613216170. Retrieved April 16, 2017.