Wayne Rasmussen
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Position: | Safety | ||||||||
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Born: | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | June 7, 1942||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||
Weight: | 175 lb (79 kg) | ||||||||
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High school: | Howard (Howard, South Dakota) | ||||||||
College: | South Dakota State | ||||||||
NFL draft: | 1964 / Round: 9 / Pick: 117 | ||||||||
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Wayne Rasmussen (born June 7, 1942) is a former American football safety who played for the Detroit Lions. After his football career, he spent many years as an executive for Citibank at their Sioux Falls, South Dakota location, and is now retired in the Sioux Falls area.
Rasmussen graduated from Howard High School, located in Howard, South Dakota.[1] Rasmussen played football, basketball and baseball at South Dakota State University. As point guard, he led South Dakota State to the NCAA Division II National Championship in 1963 and was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Also, as a football player in college, he played wide receiver as well as defensive back.
He is an inductee of the South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame.
References
[edit]- ^ "Wayne Rasmussen - South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame". www.sdshof.com. Retrieved September 20, 2019.
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Categories:
- 1942 births
- Living people
- American football safeties
- American football wide receivers
- Basketball players from Chicago
- Detroit Lions players
- Point guards
- South Dakota State Jackrabbits football players
- South Dakota State Jackrabbits men's basketball players
- Players of American football from Chicago
- Sportspeople from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- American men's basketball players
- American football defensive back, 1940s birth stubs