Wayne Walker
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| Position: | Linebacker, placekicker | ||||||||
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| Date of birth: | September 30, 1936 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | Boise, Idaho, U.S. | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 225 lb (102 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Boise (ID) | ||||||||
| College: | Idaho | ||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1958 / Round: 4 / Pick: 45 | ||||||||
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| Games played: | 200 |
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| Extra points: | 172 |
| Points scored: | 345 |
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Wayne Harrison Walker (born September 30, 1936) is a former professional football player and sports broadcaster. He played fifteen seasons with the Detroit Lions of the National Football League, as a linebacker and placekicker. Walker played in 200 regular season games, the second most for a defensive player at the time. He played in three Pro Bowls and thrice selected as a first-team All-NFL player. After the 1972 season, he retired as a player and was a sports broadcaster for CBS and the sports director for KPIX-TV in San Francisco from 1974 to 1994. Walker was a weekend sportscaster during the off-season during his later years as a Detroit Lion.
Born and raised in Boise, Idaho, Walker graduated from Boise High School in 1954. As a teen, he played American Legion baseball against hall of famer Harmon Killebrew of Payette; Walker passed on an offer to play minor league baseball to attend college.
Walker played college football at the University of Idaho in Moscow, then a member of the Pacific Coast Conference, as a center and middle linebacker for the Vandals under head coach Skip Stahley. Walker's teammate (and road roommate) at Idaho was Jerry Kramer. Both Walker and Kramer went on to play in the NFL, and both had their numbers retired at Idaho.
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