Tom Feamster
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Position: | Defensive end | ||||
Personal information | |||||
Born: | Warwick, Virginia, U.S. | October 23, 1930||||
Died: | June 9, 2020 Hazard, Kentucky, U.S. | (aged 89)||||
Height: | 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) | ||||
Weight: | 260 lb (118 kg) | ||||
Career information | |||||
High school: | Warwick (Newport News, Virginia) | ||||
College: | William & Mary / Florida State | ||||
NFL draft: | 1955 / round: 4 / pick: 40 (by the Los Angeles Rams)[1] | ||||
Career history | |||||
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Thomas Otey Feamster (October 23, 1930 – June 9, 2020[2]) was a professional American football player for the National Football League (NFL)'s Baltimore Colts. He played in twelve games in the 1956 season after his collegiate career at William & Mary and then Florida State.[3]
In 1969, Feamster entered a seminary and was later ordained an Episcopal priest. In 1979, he served as a minister to John Spenkelink prior to Spenkelink's execution.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "1955 Los Angeles Rams". databaseFootball.com. Archived from the original on January 4, 2010. Retrieved July 17, 2020.
- ^ "Thomas Otey Feamster: October 23, 1930 - June 9, 2020". Maggard Funeral Homes. Retrieved July 7, 2021.
- ^ Tom Feamster @ pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved September 19, 2013.
- ^ Von Drehle, David. Among the Lowest of the Dead: Inside Death Row. New York: Fawcett Crest (imprint of Ballantine Books), 1996. ISBN 0449225232 p. 77
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Categories:
- 1930 births
- 2020 deaths
- American football defensive ends
- Baltimore Colts players
- Basketball players from Virginia
- Centers (basketball)
- Florida State Seminoles football players
- Florida State Seminoles men's basketball players
- Players of American football from Newport News, Virginia
- William & Mary Tribe football players
- American Episcopal priests
- American men's basketball players
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American football defensive lineman, 1930s birth stubs