Al Coppage

Al Coppage

Coppage in 1946
Position:	End
Personal information
Date of birth:	(1916-02-08)February 8, 1916
Place of birth:	Pilot Point, Texas
Date of death:	January 9, 1992(1992-01-09) (aged 75)
Place of death:	Altus, Oklahoma
Height:	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight:	195 lb (88 kg)
Career information
High school:	Hollis High School
College:	University of Oklahoma
NFL Draft:	1940 / Round: 13 / Pick: 111
Career history
Chicago Cardinals (1940–1942) Cleveland Browns (1946) Buffalo Bills (AAFC) (1947)
Career highlights and awards
AAFC champion (1946)
Career NFL statistics as of 1947
Games: 55 Receptions: 65 Receiving yards: 736

Alton Minor Coppage (February 8, 1916 – January 9, 1992) was a professional American football end who played five seasons in the National Football League (NFL) and All-America Football Conference (AAFC), mostly for the Chicago Cardinals. Coppage grew up in Oklahoma and attended the University of Oklahoma, where he was part of a 1938 football team that won the school's first Big Six Conference championship. He was drafted by the NFL's Cardinals in 1940 and played in Chicago for three seasons before leaving to serve in World War II. He signed with the Cleveland Browns in the AAFC after his discharge from the military and played one season for the team, moving to the Buffalo Bills in 1947. After leaving football, Coppage settled in Oklahoma and worked in lumber and banking. He died in 1992.

Coppage grew up in Hollis, Oklahoma and attended the University of Oklahoma in Norman. He played football as an end for the Oklahoma Sooners for three years starting as a sophomore in 1937. Coppage was a member of a 1938 Sooners team that went undefeated and was ranked fourth in the country by the Associated Press before losing in the Orange Bowl to Tennessee. Despite the bowl-game loss, the Sooners won their first-ever Big Six Conference championship.