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Position: | Wide receiver | ||||||||
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Date of birth: | September 21, 1946 | ||||||||
Place of birth: | Lynwood, California | ||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||
Weight: | 175 lb (79 kg) | ||||||||
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High school: | Bradenton (FL) Manatee | ||||||||
College: | Florida | ||||||||
NFL Draft: | 1968 / Round: 3 / Pick: 83 | ||||||||
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Player stats at PFR |
Games played: | 22 |
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Receptions: | 26 |
Receiving yards: | 274 |
Player stats at NFL.com |
Richard Earl Trapp (born September 21, 1946) is an American former college and professional football player who was a wide receiver in the American Football League (AFL) for two seasons during the late 1960s. Trapp played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, played professionally for the Buffalo Bills and San Diego Chargers of the AFL.
He was born in Lynwood, California. Trapp attended Manatee High School in Bradenton, Florida, where he was a standout high school football player for the Manatee Hurricanes.
Trapp accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Ray Graves' Florida Gators football team from 1965 to 1967. In three seasons as a starting wide receiver for the Gators, he totaled 1,783 receiving yards, and compiled eight games where he caught passes for 100 yards or more. Memorably, in 1966 he caught passes for 148 yards against the Auburn Tigers, and 150 yards against the Ole Miss Rebels; in 1967, he compiled 171 receiving yards against the Georgia Bulldogs. Trapp was a first-team All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) selection in 1966 and 1967, and the recipient of the Gators' Fergie Ferguson Award in 1967. He also played for coach Dave Fuller's Florida Gators baseball team in 1967 and 1968.