Paul Feldhausen

American football player (born 1946)

American football player

Paul Feldhausen

No. 66

Position:

Tackle

Personal information

Born:

(1946-06-14) June 14, 1946 (age 78)
Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.

Height:

6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)

Weight:

260 lb (118 kg)

Career information

High school:

Iron Mountain (Iron Mountain, Michigan)

College:

Northland College

NFL draft:

1968 / round: 11 / pick: 278

Career history

Boston Patriots (1968)

Career NFL statistics

Games Played:	2

Player stats at PFR

Paul Elvie Feldhausen (born June 14, 1946) is a former player in the American Football League for the Boston Patriots in 1968 as a tackle.

Career

Feldhausen was a nine letterwinner and MVP of both the football and basketball teams at Iron Mountain High School in 1963-64. Feldhausen then attended Northland College in Wisconsin where he was two-time football captain and Little All-America lineman in 1966-67, eventually being inducted to the Northland Sports Hall of Fame in 1991.^[1] He also became the first recipient of the Voltaire Perkins award as Most Valuable Player for the Northland College football team.^[2]

Paul Feldhausen was drafted in the 11th round of the 1968 NFL/AFL draft to the Boston Patriots. He played as a tackle for the team for three seasons, but only played in two games, both in the 1968 season.^[3] After three years with the Patriots, he suffered a back injury in a blocking dummy accident and subsequently had to retire from the league.^[2]

After retiring, he spent 40 years as a football and baseball official for the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association, and was the 1993 National Federation of State High School Associations Umpire of the Year.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "Inductee Class of 2015". upshf.com. Upper Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Hall of Fame". northlandcollegesports.com. Northland College Athletics. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
^ "Paul Feldhausen Stats". Pro-Football-Reference.com.