Urban Odson

Urban Odson
Career information
Date of birth	(1918-11-17)November 17, 1918
Place of birth	Clark, South Dakota
Date of death	June 22, 1986(1986-06-22) (aged 67)
Place of death	Rapid City, South Dakota
Position(s)	Tackle
College	Minnesota
NFL draft	1942 / Round: 1 / Pick: 9
Career history
As player
1946–1949	Green Bay Packers
Career highlights and awards
Awards	consensus first team All American 1940, second team All American 1941, All Big Ten first team 1940
Honors	Member of South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame, Member of the University of Minnesota "M" Club Athletic Hall of Fame
Career stats
Playing stats at DatabaseFootball.com

Urban Leroy Odson was an American football tackle in the National Football League who played 44 games for the Green Bay Packers (1946–1949). In 1942, the Green Bay Packers used the 9th pick in the 1st round of the 1942 NFL Draft to sign Odson out of the University of Minnesota. Odson, a consensus All-American, starred on two undefeated NCAA National Championship teams for the Golden Gophers (1940 and 1941). Odson was selected to play in the 1942 College All-Star game on August 28, 1942 in front of 101,103 spectators against the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field in Chicago. Odson also was selected to play in the East-West Shrine All Star game. Odson entered the Navy and played for the legendary World War II Great Lakes football teams that played exhibition games against pro teams. Ensign Odson is listed on the Football and America: World War II Honor Roll at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. After serving a tour in the Pacific theater aboard the USS Amsterdam, Odson went on to play under Curly Lambeau for four seasons with the Packers and left the Packers after the 1949 season. After brief stops with Chicago and Baltimore in 1950 he joined the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League for one season.

References

1942 NFL draft first-round selections

Bill Dudley Jack Wilson Pete Kmetovic Steve Lach Bob Westfall Spec Sanders Bobby Robertson Merle Hapes Urban Odson Frankie Albert Jack Jenkins

Green Bay Packers 1942 NFL draft selections

Urban Odson Ray Frankowski Bill Green Joe Krivonak Pres Johnston Joe Rogers Noah Langdale Gene Flick Tom Farris Jimmy Richardson Bruce Smith Bill Applegate Jim Trimble Tom Kinkade Fred Preston Bob Ingalls George Benson Horace (Deacon) Young Henry Woronicz Woody Adams

1940 College Football All-America Team consensus selections

Backfield	QB Frankie Albert HB George Franck HB Tom Harmon FB John Kimbrough

Line	E Gene Goodreault E David Rankin T Alf Bauman T Nick Drahos T Urban Odson G Marshall Robnett G Bob Suffridge C Rudy Mucha

1940 Minnesota Golden Gophers football—AP national champions

John Billman Bob Bjorklund George Franck Bill Garnaas Fred Vant Hull Bill Johnson Bill Kuusisto Butch Levy Paul Mitchell Don Nolander Urban Odson Bob Paffrath Gordon Paschka Warren Plunkett Helge Pukema Bruce Smith Bob Sweiger Dick Wildung Head coach: Bernie Bierman Assistant coaches: Bert Baston Sheldon Beise Sigmund Harris George Hauser Dallas Ward

1941 Minnesota Golden Gophers football—AP national champions

John Billman Bill Garnaas Butch Levy Vic Kulbitski Paul Mitchell Don Nolander Urban Odson Gordon Paschka Warren Plunkett Helge Pukema Rudy Sikich Bruce Smith Bob Sweiger Dick Wildung Head coach: Bernie Bierman Assistant coaches: Bert Baston Sheldon Beise Sigmund Harris George Hauser Dallas Ward

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/20/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.