Warren Alfson
| Position: | G / LB | ||||||||
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| Date of birth: | May 10, 1915 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | Wisner, Nebraska | ||||||||
| Date of death: | June 4, 2001 (aged 86) | ||||||||
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| College: | Nebraska | ||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1941 / Round: 16 / Pick: 149 | ||||||||
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| Games played: | 11 |
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| Games started: | 11 |
| Interceptions: | 2 |
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Warren Alfson (May 10, 1915 – June 4, 2001) was an American football guard and linebacker for the Nebraska Cornhuskers, as well as the Brooklyn Dodgers of the National Football League.
He was born and raised in Wisner, Nebraska. Alfson graduated from Wisner High School in 1933, where he was a halfback on the school's single wing football team.
After graduating from high school, Alfson worked and farmed for several years until earning enough money to attend the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Class of 1941, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. When he attended school, he decided to try out for the Cornhusker football team (at the urging of fellow Wisner native Jerry LaNoue, a Cornhusker quarterback), but as a lineman. After one year on the freshman squad, he asked the school's permission to continue practicing, but to not play, so that he could get himself into proper condition as well as to wait for the upperclassmen ahead of him to graduate. This made Alfson the first recorded redshirt in Cornhusker history, and likely the first in collegiate history - the inventor of "redshirting" - the Nebraska color without a number.
Alfson's year of conditioning would pay off well, as he returned to become a three-year starter for Nebraska. In the era of one-platoon football, he was a guard on offense, and a linebacker on defense, and he wore jersey number #22 throughout his Cornhusker career. He would ultimately become recognized as first team All Big Six Conference in 1939 and 1940, second team All-America in 1939, and he would earn first team All-America status in 1940, the year the Nebraska Cornhuskers went 8-2 and played Stanford in the 1941 Rose Bowl under coach Biff Jones.
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