Jim Ringo
circa 1966
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| Position: | Center | ||||||||
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| Date of birth: | November 21, 1931 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | Orange, New Jersey | ||||||||
| Date of death: | November 19, 2007 (aged 75) | ||||||||
| Place of death: | Virginia Beach, Virginia | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 232 lb (105 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Phillipsburg (NJ) | ||||||||
| College: | Syracuse | ||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1953 / Round: 7 / Pick: 79 | ||||||||
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| Games played: | 187 |
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| Rushing yards: | 13 |
| Coaching record: | 3-20-0 |
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James Stephen Ringo (November 21, 1931 – November 19, 2007) was a professional American football player, a Hall of Fame center and coach. He was a ten-time Pro Bowler during his career.
Born in Orange, New Jersey, Ringo grew up in Phillipsburg and played high school football at Phillipsburg High School, and college football at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.
The Packers selected him in the seventh round of the 1953 NFL draft out of Syracuse. Ringo was considered vastly undersized at 211 pounds (96 kg).
He was not, however, unfit for the role, using his outstanding quickness and excellent technique to build a 15-year NFL career, including 11 seasons with the Packers, as one of the game's best centers.
Ringo played for four different head coaches in his Packers tenure. In his first six seasons in Green Bay, playing under Gene Ronzani (1953), Lisle Blackbourn (1954–57) and Ray "Scooter" McLean (1958), the Packers went 20–50–2 (.286).
But Vince Lombardi's arrival in January 1959 changed everything, and for Ringo's next five seasons the Packers went 50–15–1 (.769) and 2–1 in championship games. Ringo certainly knew individual success before the Lombardi era, attending his first of seven straight Pro Bowls in 1957, but he flourished under the coaching legend, earning consensus All-Pro honors from 1959–63.
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