John Symank
| No. 27, 31 | |||||||||||||
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| Position: | Defensive back | ||||||||||||
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| Date of birth: | August 31, 1935 | ||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | La Grange, Texas | ||||||||||||
| Date of death: | January 23, 2002 (aged 66) | ||||||||||||
| Place of death: | Dauphin Island, Alabama | ||||||||||||
| Height: | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||||||||||||
| Weight: | 180 lb (82 kg) | ||||||||||||
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| High school: | Caldwell (TX) | ||||||||||||
| College: | Florida | ||||||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1957 / Round: 23 / Pick: 268 | ||||||||||||
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| Games played: | 89 |
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| Interceptions: | 19 |
| INT return yards: | 387 |
| Touchdowns: | 1 |
| Fumbles recovered: | 12 |
| Player stats at NFL.com | |
John Richard Symank (August 31, 1935 – January 23, 2002) was an American college and professional football player who was a defensive back in the National Football League (NFL) for seven seasons during the 1950s and 1960s. Symank played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he played professionally for the Green Bay Packers and St. Louis Cardinals of the NFL. He was later the head coach for Northern Arizona University and the University of Texas at Arlington football teams.
Symank was born in LaGrange, Texas in 1935, to Oswald "Curly" and Ann Pauline Symank. Symank's family was of Wendish descent, a Slavic group that emigrated to Central Texas in the mid-nineteenth century from Germany.
Symank's father died when Johnny was only 8 years old. Symank attended Caldwell High School in Caldwell, Texas, where he excelled in sports and lettered in high school football and track and field for the Caldwell Hornets.
After graduating from high school, Symank attended Arlington State Junior College in Arlington, Texas, and played for the Arlington Rebels football team under coach Chena Gilstrap in 1953 and 1954. Symank enrolled in the college's Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) unit to fulfill his military obligation and remained an active ROTC member throughout his college career.
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