Ray Schoenke
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Tackle Guard |
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| Date of birth: | September 10, 1941 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | Wahiawa, Hawaii | ||||||||
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| College: | Southern Methodist | ||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1963 / Round: 11 / Pick: 146 | ||||||||
| AFL draft: |
1963 / Round: 10 / Pick: 73 (by the Oakland Raiders) |
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| Games played: | 145 |
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| Games started: | 74 |
| Fumble recoveries: | 5 |
| Player stats at NFL.com | |
Raymond Frederick Schoenke (born September 10, 1941 in Wahiawa, Hawaii) is a former American football player in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys and the Washington Redskins. He was the founding President of the American Hunters and Shooters Association.
Born in Hawaii to Olivia Pualani Alapa, a full-blooded native Hawaiian and Raymond F. Schoenke, of German descent from Minnesota, who was stationed with the U.S. Army 3rd Engineering Corp, Schofield Barracks in Hawaii where he was an All-Star athlete on their baseball and basketball teams in the late 1920s and 1930s.
Schoenke's family moved to Texas when he was 10-13 years then returned to Hawaii, where he attended Punahou High School in Honolulu for grades 9-11 where he received recognition in football with an All-Star Award (the equivalent of all-State since Hawaii at the time was still a Territory). For his senior year in high school his family returned to Texas where he was an All-State football player for Weatherford High School. He accepted a scholarship to play for Southern Methodist University. At SMU, Schoenke was chosen as Sophomore Lineman of the Year (1960) and All-Southwest conference in both his junior and senior years (1961, 1962). He also received Academic All-American awards and All-American awards in his senior year. The University honored Schoenke by awarding the SMU "M" award - recognizing him as one of the most Distinguished Seniors to graduate in the class of 1963. Later, Schoenke was also named to SMU's 75th Anniversary All Time Football Team and received the Silver Anniversary Mustang Award from the SMU Letterman's Association, which honors the character and achievements of former athletes.
Schoenke was drafted in the eleventh round of the 1963 NFL Draft by the Dallas Cowboys. He was waived injured from the team on August 8, 1965. In 1966 after being out of football for a year, he signed as a free agent with the Green Bay Packers, and was traded to the Cleveland Browns. He was released by the Browns and was signed by the Washington Redskins where he became an integral part of the team for the next 10 years.
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