1968 NFL/AFL Draft
Notable undrafted players
Table:
Original NFL team

Player

Pos.

College

Conf.

Notes

Atlanta Falcons

Grady Allen

LB

Texas A&M

SWC

Atlanta Falcons

Harmon Wages

RB

Florida

SEC

Cincinnati Bengals

Bill Peterson

LB

San Jose State

Ind.

Cincinnati Bengals

Tom Sherman

QB

Penn State

Ind.

Cincinnati Bengals

Sam Wyche

QB

Furman

SoCon

Denver Broncos

Joe DiVito

P/QB

Boston College

Ind. (Univ.)

Denver Broncos

Terry Erwin

RB

Boston College

Ind. (Univ.)

Denver Broncos

Billy Van Heusen

P/WR

Maryland

ACC

Green Bay Packers

Errol Mann

K

North Dakota

NCC

Houston Oilers

Steve Quinn

C

Notre Dame

Ind.

Miami Dolphins

Manny Fernandez

DE

Utah

WAC

New Orleans Saints

Tony Baker †

RB

Iowa State

Big Eight

New York Jets

John Dockery

S

Harvard

Ivy

Philadelphia Eagles

Wayne Colman

LB

Temple

MASCAC

St. Louis Cardinals (NFL)

Cid Edwards

RB

Tennessee State

Ind. (Coll.)

San Diego Chargers

Jim Fetherston

LB

California

AAWU

San Francisco 49ers

Woody Peoples †

OG

Grambling State

SWAC

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The 1968 Atlanta Falcons season was the franchise 's third year in the National Football League ( NFL ) .
Grady Lynn Allen ( January 1 , 1946 - December 4 , 2012 ) is a former professional American football player who played linebacker for five seasons for the Atlanta Falcons . Born in San Augustine , Texas , Allen played defensive end for Texas A & M from 1965 to 1967 . During his senior year , he was a team captain , was given the annual Aggie Heart award by the team , earned all Southwest Conference honors , and helped the team to its first Cotton Bowl appearance in 27 years , where they upset Alabama 20-16 . Not chosen in the NFL draft , Allen played as a reserve linebacker in 59 games for the Atlanta Falcons over 5 seasons from 1968 until 1972 , recording 2 interceptions and 3 fumble recoveries . Allen played in all 14 games each season , except for 1971 , where an injury limited him to 3 games . Allen was inducted into the Texas A & M Hall of Fame in 1995 and served as president of the Texas A & M Lettermens Association in 2006 . Allen died of cardiac arrest on December 4 , 2012 . He is survived by his wife Kay and three children : Geoff , Dennis , who was the former Head Coach of the Oakland Raiders and is currently serving as the defensive co-coordinator of the New Orleans Saints . and Ann Marie .
A linebacker ( LB or backer ) is a playing position in gridiron football . Linebackers are members of the defensive team , and line up approximately three to five yards ( 4 m ) behind the line of scrimmage , behind the defensive linemen , and therefore back up the line . Linebackers generally align themselves before the ball is snapped by standing upright in a two-point stance ( as opposed to the defensive linemen , who put one or two hands on the ground for a three-point stance or four-point stance before the ball is snapped ) . The goal of the linebacker is to provide either extra run defense or extra pass defense based on the particular defensive play being executed . Another key play of the linebacker position is blitzing . A blitz occurs when a linebacker acts as an extra pass rusher running into any exposed gap . When a blitz is called by the defense , it is mainly to sack or hurry the opposing offense 's quarterback . Linebackers are often regarded as the most important position in defense , due to their versatility in providing hard hits on running plays or an additional layer of pass defense , when required . Similar to the free safety position , linebackers are required to use their judgment on every snap , to determine their role during that particular play .
The 1967 Texas A & M Aggies football team represented Texas A & M University in the 1967 NCAA University Division football season as a member of the Southwest Conference ( SWC ) . The Aggies were led by head coach Gene Stallings in his third season and finished with a record of seven wins and four losses ( 7-4 overall , 6-1 in the SWC ) , as Southwest Conference champions and with a victory in the Cotton Bowl Classic over Alabama .
The Southwest Conference ( SWC ) was an NCAA Division I college athletic conference in the United States that existed from 1914 to 1996 . Composed primarily of schools from Texas , at various times the conference included schools from Oklahoma and Arkansas as well , but not from the actual Southwestern United States . For most of its history , the core members of the conference were Texas-based schools plus one in Arkansas : Rice University , Southern Methodist University , Texas A & M University , Texas Christian University , Baylor University , the University of Arkansas , and the University of Texas . After a long period of stability , the conference 's overall athletic prowess began to decline throughout the 1980s , due in part to numerous member schools violating NCAA recruiting rules , culminating in the suspension of the entire SMU football program ( death penalty ) for the 1987 and 1988 seasons . Arkansas , after years of feeling like an outsider in the conference , left after the 1990-91 school year to join the Southeastern Conference , although they did compete in the SWC in football for the 1991 season . Five years later , the conference precipitously broke up as Baylor , Texas , Texas A & M , and Texas Tech ( which had entered in 1956 ) combined with the members of the former Big Eight Conference to form a new league , the Big 12 Conference , while Rice , SMU , TCU , and Houston ( which entered the SWC in 1976 ) found homes in less prominent conferences ( although TCU later joined the Big 12 ) .
Harmon Leon Wages ( born May 18 , 1946 ) is an American former college and professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League ( NFL ) for five seasons during the 1960s and 1970s . He played college football for the University of Florida , and thereafter , he played professionally for the Atlanta Falcons of the NFL .
A running back ( RB ) is a member of the offensive backfield in gridiron football . The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback to rush the ball , and block . There are usually one or two running backs on the field for a given play , depending on the offensive formation . A running back may be a halfback ( in certain contexts also referred to as a tailback ) , a wingback or a fullback . A running back will sometimes be called a feature back if he is the team 's starting running back .
The 1967 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1967 NCAA University Division football season . The season was the eighth for Ray Graves as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team . Graves ' 1967 Florida Gators posted a 6-4 overall record and a 4-2 record in the Southeastern Conference ( SEC ) , tying for third among the ten SEC teams .
The Southeastern Conference ( SEC ) is an American college athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the South Central and Southeastern United States . Its fourteen members include the flagship public universities of ten states , three additional public land grant universities , and one private research university . The conference is headquartered in Birmingham , Alabama . The SEC participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) Division I in sports competitions ; for football , it is part of the Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ) , formerly known as Division I-A . The SEC is regarded as one of the most accomplished sports conferences in terms of its winning reputation , with 43 national football championships , 21 basketball championships , 41 indoor track championships , 42 outdoor track championships , 24 swimming championships , 20 gymnastics championships , and 13 College World Series . The conference is also highly successful financially , as it consistently leads most others in revenue distribution to its members , including an SEC record $ 455.8 million for the 2014-15 fiscal year , which was a sizable increase over the $ 292.8 million for the 2013-14 fiscal year , largely due to the revenue from the introduction of the SEC Network . The SEC was also the first NCAA Division I conference to hold a championship game ( and award a subsequent title ) for college football and was one of the founding members of the Bowl Championship Series ( BCS ) . The current SEC commissioner is Greg Sankey . The conference sponsors team championships in nine men 's sports and twelve women 's sports .
The 1968 Cincinnati Bengals season was the team 's first year in professional football . Paul Brown , who left the Cleveland Browns following the 1962 season with National Football League ( NFL ) record of 115-49-6 , seven conference titles , and three NFL championships , had the urge to get back into football . His son Mike Brown did a study on pro football expansion and recommended Cincinnati as a potential site . In 1965 , Brown met with Ohio Governor James Rhodes and the two agreed the state could accommodate a second pro football team . 1966 - Fearful the Cincinnati Reds baseball team would leave town and feeling pressure from local businessmen pushing for a pro football franchise , Cincinnati 's city council approved the construction of Riverfront Stadium . 1967 - Brown 's group was awarded an American Football League ( AFL ) expansion franchise . Brown named the team the Bengals , the name of Cincinnati 's pro teams in the old AFL of the late 1930s . The Bengals acquired their first player late in the year when they traded two draft picks to Miami for quarterback John Stofa . 1968 - The Bengals were awarded 40 veteran players in the allocation draft . In the college draft , they selected University of Tennessee center Bob Johnson as their first pick . The Bengals lost their first preseason game 38-14 to the Kansas City Chiefs before 21,682 fans at the University of Cincinnati 's Nippert Stadium . The Bengals upset the Denver Broncos 24-10 and the Buffalo Bills 34-23 in their first two regular-season home games .
Bill Peterson is a former professional American football player who played linebacker for five seasons for the Cincinnati Bengals one season with Kansas City Chiefs and one season with New England Patriots .
The 1967 San Jose State Spartans football team represented San Jose State College [ note 1 ] during the 1967 NCAA University Division football season . San Jose State played as an Independent in 1967 . The team was led by third-year head coach Harry Anderson , and played home games at Spartan Stadium in San Jose , California . The Spartans finished the 1967 season with a record of two wins and seven losses ( 2-7 ) . Overall , the team was outscored by its opponents 166-286 for the season .
National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) Football Bowl Subdivision independent schools are four-year institutions whose football programs are not part of an NCAA-affiliated conference . This means that FBS independents are not required to schedule each other for competition like conference schools do . There are fewer independent schools than in years past ; many independent schools join , or attempt to join , established conferences . The main reasons to join a conference are to gain a share of television revenue and access to bowl games that agree to take teams from certain conferences , and to help deal with otherwise potentially difficult challenges in scheduling opponents to play throughout the season . All Division I FBS independents are eligible for the College Football Playoff ( CFP ) , or for the so-called access bowls associated with the CFP , if they are chosen by the CFP selection committee . Notre Dame has a potential tie-in with the Orange Bowl . Army has an agreement with the Military Bowl ( formerly the EagleBank Bowl ) , and Notre Dame , in addition to its CFP agreement , has other bowl agreements as part of its affiliation with the Atlantic Coast Conference ( ACC ) . ( Notre Dame had similar agreements with its previous conference , the Big East . ) BYU had an agreement with the Armed Forces Bowl for 2011 . The ranks of football independents increased by one starting with the 2011 season with the announcement that BYU would leave the Mountain West Conference ( MWC ) to become a football independent starting with that season . The ranks increased by two in 2013 when the Western Athletic Conference ( WAC ) dropped football and New Mexico State and Idaho did not have a conference for football . The ranks of football independents decreased by two in 2014 with the return of Idaho and New Mexico State as football-only members of the Sun Belt Conference ( SBC ) and decreased by one more in 2015 with Navy joining the American Athletic Conference ( AAC ) as a football-only member .
Thomas Joseph Sherman ( born December 5 , 1945 ) was an American football quarterback for the American Football League 's Cincinnati Bengals ( 1968 ) , Boston Patriots ( 1968-69 ) , and Buffalo Bills ( 1969 ) . In two seasons in the AFL , he played in 19 games and completed 92 of 228 passes for 1,219 Yards , 13 touchdowns and 16 interceptions . He also had 58 rushing attempts for 468 yards and 1 touchdown . Sherman signed with the New York Stars of the World Football League in 1974 . The Stars moved to Charlotte , North Carolina midway through the 1974 WFL season and became the Hornets . Tom played for the Charlotte Hornets in 1975 until the league folded in the twelfth week of the season on October 22 , 1975 .
The quarterback ( commonly abbreviated QB ) , colloquially known as the signal caller , is a position in gridiron football . Quarterbacks are members of the offensive team and line up directly behind the offensive line . In modern American football , the quarterback is usually considered the leader of the offensive team , and is often responsible for calling the play in the huddle . The quarterback also touches the ball on almost every offensive play , and is the offensive player that almost always throws forward passes . When the QB is tackled behind the line of scrimmage , it is called a sack .
The 1967 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1967 NCAA University Division football season . The team was coached by Joe Paterno and played its home games in Beaver Stadium in University Park , Pennsylvania .
Samuel David Wyche ( /hwaɪʃ/ wysh ; January 5 , 1945 - January 2 , 2020 ) was an American professional football player and coach . He was a player and head coach for the Cincinnati Bengals and a quarterbacks coach for the San Francisco 49ers . As head coach , he led the Bengals to Super Bowl XXIII , which they lost to the 49ers 20-16 , relinquishing the lead on a last-minute touchdown . He was also known for introducing the use of the no-huddle offense as a standard offense ( as opposed to use at the end of the half ) . Wyche coached Cincinnati from 1984 to 1991 , and his 64 wins with the Bengals were the most by a coach in franchise history until he was surpassed by Marvin Lewis in 2011 . Wyche also played for the Washington Redskins , Detroit Lions , and St. Louis Cardinals . He also coached at the University of South Carolina and Indiana University , and for the San Francisco 49ers , Tampa Bay Buccaneers , and Buffalo Bills .
The Furman Paladins football program is the intercollegiate American football team for the Furman University located in the state of South Carolina . The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision ( FCS ) and are members of the Southern Conference . The school 's first football team was fielded in 1889 . The team plays its home games at the 16,000 seat Paladin Stadium . They are coached by Clay Hendrix .
The Southern Conference ( SoCon ) is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) Division I . Southern Conference football teams compete in the Football Championship Subdivision ( formerly known as Division I-AA ) . Member institutions are located in the states of Alabama , Georgia , North Carolina , South Carolina , Tennessee , and Virginia . Established in 1921 , the Southern Conference ranks as the fifth-oldest major college athletic conference in the United States , and either the third- or fourth-oldest in continuous operation , depending on definitions . Among conferences currently in operation , the Big Ten ( 1896 ) and Missouri Valley ( 1907 ) are indisputably older . The Pac-12 Conference did not operate under its current charter until 1959 , but claims the history of the Pacific Coast Conference , founded in 1915 , as its own . The Southwest Conference ( SWC ) was founded in 1914 , but ceased operation in 1996 . The Big Eight Conference claimed the same history as the Missouri Valley from 1907 to 1928 during its existence ; though it essentially merged with four SWC members to form the Big 12 Conference in 1996 , the Big 12 does not claim the Big Eight 's legacy . The Ivy League was formally organized in 1954 with athletic competition starting in 1955 , but claims the history of the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League , which competed from 1901 to 1955 , as its own . The SoCon was the first conference to use the three-point field goal in basketball in a November 29 , 1980 game at Western Carolina against Middle Tennessee State University ( MTSU ) , where Ronnie Carr shot the historic shot from 22 feet ( 6.7 m ) away and the Catamounts won 77-70 . The Southern Conference is considered one of the stronger football conferences in the Football Championship Subdivision and is considered a mid-major conference in basketball . It has also garnered considerable national attention from its recent success in these sports : in particular , former member , three-time Division I NCAA Football champion Appalachian State Mountaineers , who stunned the fifth-ranked Michigan Wolverines 34-32 on September 1 , 2007 ; from the Davidson Wildcats , who reached the Elite Eight in the 2008 NCAA Men 's Division I Basketball Tournament by upsetting power programs Gonzaga ( a mid-major school which became a power program in the 2000s ) , Georgetown , and Wisconsin .
The 1968 Denver Broncos season was the ninth season for the team in the American Football League ( AFL ) . Led by second-year head coach and general manager Lou Saban , the Broncos improved their record from the previous season by posting a record of five wins and nine losses . They finished fourth in the AFL 's Western division for the sixth straight season ; the expansion Cincinnati Bengals finished fifth , allowing Denver to escape the cellar . There were threats of the Broncos relocating to Atlanta , Chicago , and Birmingham , Alabama . The 1968 season was the first in which Denver wore blue helmets with the trademark orange D logo . They wore this uniform through the 1973 season , altering the shade of orange in their jerseys in 1974 ; helmets remained the same until the 1997 season . In 1968 , Bears Stadium was sold to the city of Denver , which renamed it Mile High Stadium and built the upper deck along the west side , raising capacity to 50,657 .
Joseph Charles DiVito ( born September 2 , 1945 ) is a former American collegiate and Professional Football quarterback and punter for the Boston College Eagles and the Denver Broncos of the American Football League .
A punter ( P ) in gridiron football is a special teams player who receives the snapped ball directly from the line of scrimmage and then punts ( kicks ) the football to the opposing team so as to limit any field position advantage . This generally happens on a fourth down in American football and a third down in Canadian football . Punters may also occasionally take part in fake punts in those same situations , when they throw or run the football instead of punting .
The 1967 Boston College Eagles football team represented Boston College during the 1967 NCAA University Division football season . The Eagles were led by sixth-year head coach Jim Miller and played their home games at Alumni Stadium in Chestnut Hill , Massachusetts . Boston College finished with a record of 4-6 for the second consecutive year . Head coach Jim Miller resigned at the end of the season , finishing with an overall record of 34-24 in six seasons at Boston College .
Terrence Lester Erwin ( Born August 30 , 1946 in Weymouth , Massachusetts ) is a former American football player . He played college football for the Boston College Eagles and spent one season in the American Football League with the Denver Broncos .
Billy Van Heusen ( born August 27 , 1946 ) is a former professional football punter and wide receiver who played for the Denver Broncos from 1968 to 1976 . On Oct 6 , 1968 , he tied a franchise record with 12 punts against the Cincinnati Bengals
A wide receiver , also referred to as wideouts or simply receivers , is an offensive position in gridiron football , and is a key player . They get their name because they are split out wide ( near the sidelines ) , farthest away from the rest of the team . Wide receivers are among the fastest players on the field . The wide receiver functions as the pass-catching specialist .
The 1967 Maryland Terrapins football team represented the University of Maryland in the 1967 NCAA University Division football season . In their first season under head coach Bob Ward , the Terrapins compiled a 0-9 record ( 0-6 in conference ) , finished in last place in the Atlantic Coast Conference , and were outscored by their opponents 231 to 46 . The team 's statistical leaders included Chuck Drimal with 669 passing yards , Billy Lovett with 499 rushing yards , and Rick Carlson with 309 receiving yards .
The Atlantic Coast Conference ( ACC ) is a collegiate athletic conference located in the eastern United States . Headquartered in Greensboro , North Carolina , the conference consists of fifteen member universities , each of whom compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) 's Division I , with its football teams competing in the Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ) , the highest levels for athletic competition in US-based collegiate sports . The ACC sponsors competition in twenty-five sports with many of its member institutions ' athletic programs held in high regard nationally . Current members of the conference are Boston College , Clemson University , Duke University , Georgia Institute of Technology , Florida State University , North Carolina State University , Syracuse University , the University of Louisville , the University of Miami , the University of North Carolina , the University of Notre Dame , the University of Pittsburgh , the University of Virginia , Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University , and Wake Forest University . ACC teams and athletes have claimed dozens of national championships in multiple sports throughout the conference 's history . Generally , the ACC 's top athletes and teams in any particular sport in a given year are considered to be among the top collegiate competitors in the nation . Also , the conference enjoys extensive media coverage . The ACC was one of the five collegiate power conferences , which had automatic qualifying for their football champion into the Bowl Championship Series ( BCS ) . With the advent of the College Football Playoff in 2014 , the ACC is one of five conferences with a contractual tie-in to a New Year 's Six bowl game , the successors to the BCS . The ACC was founded on May 8 , 1953 , by seven universities located in the South Atlantic States , with the University of Virginia joining in early December 1953 to bring the membership to eight . The loss of South Carolina in 1971 dropped membership to seven , while the addition of Georgia Tech in 1979 for non-football sports and 1983 for football brought it back to eight , and Florida State 's arrival in 1991 for non-football sports and 1992 for football increased the membership to nine . Since 2000 , with the widespread reorganization of the NCAA , seven additional schools have joined , and one original member ( Maryland ) has left to bring it to the current membership of 15 schools .
The 1968 Green Bay Packers season was their 50th season overall and the 48th season in the National Football League . The club posted a 6-7-1 record under first-year head coach Phil Bengston , earning them a third-place finish in the Central Division of the Western Conference . It was also the Packers ' first losing season since 1958 .
Errol Denis Mann ( June 27 , 1941 - April 11 , 2013 ) was an American football placekicker who played in the National Football League from 1968-1978 . He was a member of the Oakland Raiders ' Super Bowl XI winning team . When attempting kicks , he used the straight-on style which is now almost never used by placekickers .
Placekicker , or simply kicker ( PK or K ) , is the player in gridiron football who is responsible for the kicking duties of field goals and extra points . In many cases , the placekicker also serves as the team 's kickoff specialist or punter as well .
The North Dakota Fighting Hawks represent the University of North Dakota , competing as an independent program in the NCAA Division I 's Football Championship Subdivision . From 1973 to 2008 , they played in the NCAA 's NCAA Division II , winning the National Championship in 2001 . From 1955 to 1972 , they competed in the NCAA 's College Division where they participated in and won three bowl games . North Dakota fielded its first football team in 1894 . In 1922 , they were one of the 9 charter members of the North Central Conference , where they competed until 2008 when they upgraded all of their athletic programs to the Division I level and joined the Great West Conference . They joined the Big Sky Conference in 2012 . UND has won 26 conference championships , including 14 outright titles . They have qualified for NCAA postseason play 18 times , most recently in 2019 . North Dakota was ineligible for post season play during its transition to Division I from 2008 to 2011 . North Dakota left the Big Sky Conference for all sports in 2018 , joining the Summit League . Their football program will join the Missouri Valley Football Conference in 2020 . Although being classified as an independent for football in 2018 and 2019 , they will continue to play a full Big Sky schedule and their games will count in the conference standings for their opponents but the Fighting Hawks will be ineligible to win the conference championship .
The North Central Conference ( NCC ) , also known as North Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference , was a college athletic conference which operated in the north central United States . It participated in the NCAA 's Division II .
The 1968 Houston Oilers season was the 9th season for the Houston Oilers as a professional AFL franchise ; The team would play their home games in the Houston Astrodome . The Oilers would become the first team in professional football to play their games in a domed stadium .
Stephen Timothy Steve Quinn ( born February 11 , 1946 in Pittsburg , Kansas , United States ) is a former American football center who played one season for the American Football League 's Houston Oilers .
Center ( C ) is a position in gridiron football . The center is the innermost lineman of the offensive line on a football team 's offense . The center is also the player who passes ( or snaps ) the ball between his legs to the quarterback at the start of each play . In recent years , the importance of centers for a football team has increased , due to the re-emergence of 3-4 defenses . According to Baltimore Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome , you need to have somebody who can neutralize that nose tackle . If you do n't , everything can get screwed up . Your running game wo n't be effective and you 'll also have somebody in your quarterback 's face on every play .
The 1967 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame during the 1967 NCAA University Division football season .
National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) Football Bowl Subdivision independent schools are four-year institutions whose football programs are not part of an NCAA-affiliated conference . This means that FBS independents are not required to schedule each other for competition like conference schools do . There are fewer independent schools than in years past ; many independent schools join , or attempt to join , established conferences . The main reasons to join a conference are to gain a share of television revenue and access to bowl games that agree to take teams from certain conferences , and to help deal with otherwise potentially difficult challenges in scheduling opponents to play throughout the season . All Division I FBS independents are eligible for the College Football Playoff ( CFP ) , or for the so-called access bowls associated with the CFP , if they are chosen by the CFP selection committee . Notre Dame has a potential tie-in with the Orange Bowl . Army has an agreement with the Military Bowl ( formerly the EagleBank Bowl ) , and Notre Dame , in addition to its CFP agreement , has other bowl agreements as part of its affiliation with the Atlantic Coast Conference ( ACC ) . ( Notre Dame had similar agreements with its previous conference , the Big East . ) BYU had an agreement with the Armed Forces Bowl for 2011 . The ranks of football independents increased by one starting with the 2011 season with the announcement that BYU would leave the Mountain West Conference ( MWC ) to become a football independent starting with that season . The ranks increased by two in 2013 when the Western Athletic Conference ( WAC ) dropped football and New Mexico State and Idaho did not have a conference for football . The ranks of football independents decreased by two in 2014 with the return of Idaho and New Mexico State as football-only members of the Sun Belt Conference ( SBC ) and decreased by one more in 2015 with Navy joining the American Athletic Conference ( AAC ) as a football-only member .
The 1968 Miami Dolphins season was the team 's third in the American Football League ( AFL ) . The team improved on their 4-10 record from 1967 , finishing the season 5-8-1 and moving one place up in the AFL Eastern Division . In week 6 , the Dolphins tied the Buffalo Bills , 14-14 , the first tie in Dolphins history . The team was probably best known as being the first team to lose as the home team to the Cincinnati Bengals , as their week 11 loss to the Bengals turned out to be the Bengals ' only road win during their 1968 season .
Manuel Jose Fernandez ( born July 3 , 1946 ) is a retired American football player who played eight seasons for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League . He played in three consecutive Super Bowls for the Dolphins in the 1971 , 1972 , and 1973 seasons .
Defensive End ( DE ) is a defensive position in the sport of gridiron football . This position has designated the players at each end of the defensive line , but changes in formations over the years have substantially changed how the position is played .
The 1967 Utah Redskins football team was an American football team that represented the University of Utah during the 1967 NCAA University Division football season . Head coach Mike Giddings led the team to a 2-3 mark in the WAC and 4-7 overall .
The Western Athletic Conference ( WAC ) is an American collegiate athletic conference formed on July 27 , 1962 , and affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) Division I . The WAC covers a broad expanse of the western United States , with member institutions located in Arizona , California , New Mexico , Utah , and Washington , along with the non-western states of Missouri and Illinois ( traditionally associated with the Midwest ) , as well as Texas ( traditionally associated with the Southwest ) . Due to most of the conference 's football-playing members leaving the WAC for other affiliations , the conference discontinued football as a sponsored sport after the 2012-13 season and left the NCAA 's Football Bowl Subdivision ( formerly known as Division I-A ) . The WAC thus became the first Division I conference to drop football since the Big West in 2000 . The WAC then added men 's soccer and became one of the NCAA 's eleven Division I non-football conferences .
The 1968 New Orleans Saints season was the team 's second as a member of the National Football League ( NFL ) . They improved on their previous season 's output of 3-11 , winning four games . The team failed to qualify for the playoffs for the second consecutive season , and finished third in the Century Division of the NFL Eastern Conference .
Vernon Anthony Touchdown Tony Baker ( February 16 , 1945 - August 9 , 1998 ) was an American football running back in the National Football League . He played from 1968 to 1975 , and played for the New Orleans Saints , the Philadelphia Eagles , the Los Angeles Rams , and finally , the San Diego Chargers , ending his career with one Pro Bowl appearance in 1969 . Baker graduated from Burlington Community High School in 1963 , earning a scholarship to Iowa State University the following year where he would graduate in 1966 . He then played Semi-Pro ball for a season and a half , before being discovered by a talent scout for the New Orleans Saints . He would sign a contract with the Saints , and begin his NFL career the following year , making an appearance in the Pro Bowl in his second season . It was during this rookie season that sports broadcaster Howard Cosell gave him the nickname Touchdown Tony . He would end his career in 1975 , playing with the San Diego Chargers as a backup . On August 10 , 1998 , Baker was killed in a car accident on U.S. Route 61 , approximately 15 miles ( 24 km ) north of Burlington , Iowa following a high school class reunion . He was buried in Aspen Grove Cemetery in Burlington , next to his mother , with many of his old NFL teammates in attendance . His burial plot was chosen by his family with two trees in the distance appearing as though they were goalpost uprights . A misprint on his headstone has him named Vernon G. Baker , instead of Vernon A. Baker .
The 1967 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State University in the Big Eight Conference during the 1967 NCAA University Division football season . In their tenth and final year under head coach Clay Stapleton , the Cyclones compiled a 2-8 record ( 1-6 against conference opponents ) , finished in seventh place in the conference , and were outscored by opponents by a combined total of 275 to 86 . They played their home games at Clyde Williams Field in Ames , Iowa . Dave Mayberry and Don Stanley were the team captains .
The Big Eight Conference was a National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) -affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football . It was formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association ( MVIAA ) by its charter member schools : the University of Kansas , University of Missouri , University of Nebraska , and Washington University in St. Louis . Additionally , the University of Iowa was an original member of the MVIAA , while maintaining joint membership in the Western Conference ( now the Big Ten Conference ) . The conference was dissolved in 1996 . Its membership at its dissolution consisted of the University of Nebraska , Iowa State University , the University of Colorado at Boulder , the University of Kansas , Kansas State University , the University of Missouri , the University of Oklahoma , and Oklahoma State University . The Big Eight kept its headquarters in Kansas City , Missouri . In February 1994 , the Big Eight and the Southwest Conference announced that the two leagues had reached an agreement to form a new conference . The eight members of the Big Eight joined with SWC schools Texas , Texas A & M , Baylor , and Texas Tech to form the Big 12 Conference the following year . A vote was conducted on whether to keep the new conference 's headquarters in Kansas City , and by a vote of 7-5 the conference members voted to move to Irving , Texas , a suburb of Dallas . The two Oklahoma schools , all four Texas schools , and Colorado voted for the move while both Kansas schools , Nebraska , Missouri , and Iowa State voted for Kansas City .
The 1968 New York Jets season was the ninth season for the team in the American Football League ( AFL ) . The team had the most successful season in franchise history . Trying to improve upon their 8-5-1 record of 1967 , they won the AFL Eastern Division with an 11-3 record . They defeated the defending champion Oakland Raiders in the AFL championship game , and earned the right to play in Super Bowl III against the NFL champion Baltimore Colts . In a stunning upset , marked by fourth-year quarterback Joe Namath 's famous guarantee of victory , the Jets defeated the heavily favored Colts 16-7 . The Jets have yet to return to the Super Bowl and makes them along with the New Orleans Saints and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers the only teams to have been to just one Super Bowl and win it . On April 2 , 2007 , NFL Network aired America 's Game : The Super Bowl Champions , the 1968 New York Jets , with team commentary from Joe Namath , Gerry Philbin and Don Maynard , and narrated by Alec Baldwin .
John Dockery ( September 6 , 1944 ) is an American sportscaster and former American football defensive back who played for the New York Jets and later the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1968 to 1973 . He graduated from Brooklyn Preparatory a Jesuit High School where he lettered in Football , Basketball , and Baseball . He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Jets out of Harvard . He spent the last two years of his playing career with the Steelers . In 1965 , he played collegiate summer baseball for the now defunct Sagamore Clouters of the Cape Cod Baseball League . A first-baseman , Dockery played alongside future major league manager Bob Schaefer under Clouters ' manager Lou Lamoriello , who skippered the team to the 1965 league title . Following his retirement , Dockery went on to co-host Sports Extra on WNYW Channel 5 in New York City with Bill Mazer . He also served as a color analyst for College Football on ABC and NFL on CBS telecasts as well as a sideline reporter for College Football on CBS and Notre Dame Football on NBC . Dockery served as a sideline reporter for Monday Night Football broadcasts on Westwood One radio from 1999 to 2007 . Prior to that , he served as analyst for the network 's Sunday Night Football radiocasts , as well as sideline reporter for other games . Dockery continues to serve the game of football by co-organizing a youth football camp with Joe Namath that is in this 44th year . Additionally after his sports career Dockery founded Cambridge Corporate Services in 1998 , a New York-based outsourcing service provider .
Safety , historically known as a safetyman , is a position in gridiron football played by a member of the defense . The safeties are defensive backs who line up from ten to fifteen yards from the line of scrimmage . There are two variations of the position in a typical American formation : the free safety ( FS ) and the strong safety ( SS ) . Their duties depend on the defensive scheme . The defensive responsibilities of the safety and cornerback usually involve pass coverage towards the middle and sidelines of the field , respectively . While American ( 11-player ) formations generally use two safeties , Canadian ( 12-player ) formations generally have one safety and two defensive halfbacks , a position not used in the American game . As professional and college football have become more focused on the passing game , safeties have become more involved in covering the eligible pass receivers . Safeties are the last line of defense ; they are expected to be reliable tacklers , and many safeties rank among the hardest hitters in football . Safety positions can also be converted cornerbacks , either by design ( Byron Jones ) or as a cornerback ages ( Charles Woodson , DeAngelo Hall , Lardarius Webb , Tramon Williams ) . Historically , in the era of the one-platoon system , the safety was known as the defensive fullback ( specifically the free safety ; the strong safety would be a defensive halfback , a term still in Canadian parlance ) or goaltender .
The Harvard Crimson football program represents Harvard University in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision ( formerly Division I-AA ) . Harvard 's football program is one of the oldest in the world , having begun competing in the sport in 1873 . The Crimson has a legacy that includes thirteen national championships and 20 College Football Hall of Fame inductees , including the first African-American college football player William H. Lewis , Huntington Tack Hardwick , Barry Wood , Percy Haughton , and Eddie Mahan . Harvard is the eighth winningest team in NCAA Division I football history .
The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight private universities in the Northeastern United States . The term Ivy League is typically used to refer to those eight schools as a group of elite colleges beyond the sports context . The eight members are Brown University , Columbia University , Cornell University , Dartmouth College , Harvard University , the University of Pennsylvania , Princeton University , and Yale University . Ivy League has connotations of academic excellence , selectivity in admissions , and social elitism . While the term was in use as early as 1933 , it became official only after the formation of the NCAA Division I athletic conference in 1954 . Seven of the eight schools were founded during the colonial period ( Cornell was founded in 1865 ) , and thus account for seven of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution . The other two colonial colleges , Rutgers University and the College of William & Mary , became public institutions instead . Ivy League schools are generally viewed as some of the most prestigious in the world , and are ranked among the best universities worldwide by U.S. News & World Report . All eight universities place in the top seventeen of the 2020 U.S. News & World Report national university rankings , including four Ivies in the top three ( Columbia and Yale are tied for 3rd ) . In the 2019 U.S. News & World Report global university rankings , three Ivies rank in the top ten ( Harvard 1st , Columbia 7th , and Princeton 8th ) and six in the top twenty-three . Undergraduate-focused Ivies such as Brown University and Dartmouth College rank 99th and 197th , respectively . U.S. News has named a member of the Ivy League as the best national university in each of the past 18 years ending with the 2018 rankings : Princeton eleven times , Harvard twice , and the two schools tied for first five times .
The 1968 Philadelphia Eagles season was the franchise 's 36th season in the National Football League ( NFL ) . They failed to improve on their previous output of 6-7-1 , winning only two games . Eagles fans expected to get O.J . Simpson if they went winless . They finished 2-12 , but the Buffalo Bills went 1-12-1 and got Simpson with the first pick . Before they won their twelfth game , the Eagles were on target for a winless season at 0-11 . They were the first team in the NFL proper to lose eleven consecutive games in one season since their own 1936 season , though in the AFL the 1962 Oakland Raiders lost their first thirteen games . One of the most infamous incidents in Philadelphia sports history came at halftime of the final game of the dismal 1968 season , when the Eagles were on their way to losing to the Minnesota Vikings . The Eagles had planned a Christmas pageant for halftime of the December 15 game , but the condition of the field was too poor . Instead , the team asked a fan dressed as Santa Claus to run onto the field to celebrate with a group of cheerleaders . The fans , in no mood to celebrate , loudly booed and threw snowballs at Santa Claus .
Wayne Charles Colman ( born April 13 , 1946 in Ventnor City , New Jersey ) is a former American football linebacker who played nine seasons in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles and New Orleans Saints . He played college football at Temple University . A native of Ventnor , Colman played at Atlantic City High School and played in college for the Temple Owls football team .
The Temple Owls football team represents Temple University in the sport of college football . The Temple Owls compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision as a member of the American Athletic Conference ( The American ) . They play their home games at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . The Owls were a football-only member of the Big East Conference from 1991 until 2004 . Temple was expelled from the league due to a lack of commitment to the football program from university officials . Temple played the 2005 and 2006 seasons as an independent before playing in the Mid-American Conference ( MAC ) from 2007 to 2011 . In March 2012 , the Owls rejoined the Big East Conference , with football membership beginning in the 2012 season and all other sports beginning conference play in 2013 . That same year , the conference was renamed the American Athletic Conference after several basketball-only schools split off to form a new conference that kept the Big East name . Temple is the last original Big East football member still in the American Athletic Conference .
The Middle Atlantic Conferences ( MAC ) is an umbrella organization of three athletic conferences that competes in the NCAA 's Division III . The 17 member colleges are in the Mid-Atlantic United States . The organization is divided into two main conferences : the MAC Commonwealth and the MAC Freedom . A third conference , named the Middle Atlantic Conference ( singular ) , draws members from both the Commonwealth and Freedom conferences and sponsors sports that only a certain set of members participate in , such as track & field and cross country .
The 1968 St. Louis Cardinals season was the 49th season the team was in the National Football League ( NFL ) . The team improved on their previous output of 6-7-1 , winning nine games . Despite the improvement , they failed to qualify for the playoffs for the 20th consecutive season .
Cleophus Cid Edwards , ( born October 10 , 1943 in Selma , Alabama - died April 6 , 2013 ) was a graduate from Tennessee State University who played professional American football in the NFL from 1968 to 1975 . Edwards , a running back , in his play for the San Diego Chargers , had one particularly good year , 1972 , wherein the Chargers ' offense largely consisted of lobbing screen passes to Edwards , who would rumble down field for much positive yardage . He is in a sense an obscure folk hero in Chargers lore .
The Tennessee State Tigers are the college football team representing the Tennessee State University . The Tigers play in NCAA Division I Football Championship as a member of the Ohio Valley Conference .
NCAA Division II independent schools are four-year institutions that are not formally affiliated with any athletic conference . Schools that are members of a conference may also field intercollegiate teams in football , lacrosse , soccer , wrestling , and other sports not affiliated with a conference , usually due to their primary conference not having enough teams in a certain sport to enable sponsorship of the sport by that conference .
The 1968 Season was the 9th season for the San Diego Chargers as a professional AFL franchise ; the team improved on their 8-5-1 record from 1967 , finishing at 9-5 .
Jim Fetherston ( born June 1 , 1945 ) is a former American football linebacker . He played for the San Diego Chargers from 1968 to 1969 .
The 1967 California Golden Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of California , Berkeley in the Athletic Association of Western Universities ( AAWU ) during the 1967 NCAA University Division football season . In their fourth year under head coach Ray Willsey , the Golden Bears compiled a 5-5 record ( 2-3 against AAWU opponents ) , finished in sixth place in the AAWU , and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 195 to 155 . The highlight of the season was Cal 's beating Stanford and wining the Big Game for the first time in seven years . The team 's statistical leaders included Barry Bronk with 708 passing yards , Paul Williams with 432 rushing yards , and Wayne Stewart with 503 receiving yards .
The Pac-12 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference that operates in the Western United States , participating in 24 sports at the NCAA Division I level . Its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ; formerly Division I-A ) , the higher of two tiers of NCAA Division I football competition . The conference 's 12 members are located in the states of Arizona , California , Colorado , Oregon , Utah , and Washington . They include each state 's flagship public university , four additional public universities , and two private research universities . The modern Pac-12 conference formed after the disbanding of the Pacific Coast Conference ( PCC ) , whose principal members founded the Athletic Association of Western Universities ( AAWU ) in 1959 . The conference previously went by the names Big Five , Big Six , Pacific-8 , and Pacific-10 . The Pac-12 moniker was adopted in 2011 with the addition of Colorado and Utah . Nicknamed the Conference of Champions , the Pac-12 has won more NCAA national championships in team sports than any other conference in history . The top three schools with the most NCAA team championships are members of the Pac-12 : Stanford , UCLA , and USC , respectively . Washington 's national title in women 's rowing in 2017 was the 500th NCAA championship won by a Pac-12 school . The current commissioner of the conference is Larry Scott . Scott replaced Thomas C. Hansen , who retired in July 2009 after 26 years in that position .
The 1968 San Francisco 49ers season was the team 's 19th year with the National Football League , their 23rd season overall and the first for the team with new head coach Dick Nolan .
Woodrow Peoples , Jr. ( August 16 , 1943 - October 12 , 2010 ) was an American football offensive lineman . The undrafted Grambling State University standout was a two-time Pro Bowler with the San Francisco 49ers , and a member of the 1980 National Football Conference ( NFC ) champion Philadelphia Eagles during his 13-year National Football League ( NFL ) career . Peoples was inducted into the American Football Association 's Semi Pro Football Hall of Fame 1989 .
In gridiron football , a guard ( G ) is a player who lines up between the center and the tackles on the offensive line of a football team on the line of scrimmage used primarily for blocking . Right guards ( RG ) is the term for the guards on the right of the offensive line , while left guards ( LG ) are on the left side . Guards are to the right or left of the center . The guard 's job is to protect the quarterback from the incoming linemen during pass plays , as well as creating openings ( holes ) for the running backs to head through . Guards are automatically considered ineligible receivers , so they can not intentionally touch a forward pass , unless it is to recover a fumble or is first touched by a defender or eligible receiver .
The Grambling State Tigers are the college football team representing the Grambling State University . The Tigers play in NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision ( FCS ) as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference . The prominence of Grambling football is longstanding . The Tigers , under Hall of Fame coach Eddie Robinson ( who guided them to 408 victories in 55 seasons from 1941 to 1942 and 1945 to 1997 ) , were built as a small-school powerhouse with more than 200 players who played professional football . On September 24 , 1976 , Grambling State and Morgan State became the first collegiate football teams from the United States to play a game in the continent of Asia . GSU defeated Morgan State 42-16 in Tokyo , Japan . In fall 1977 , the GSU Tigers were invited back to Tokyo where they defeated Temple University 35-32 in the inaugural Mirage Bowl game . Among its accomplishments include : 15 Black college football national championships ( tied for second most in HBCU history ) and 26 Conference Championships ( 1 Midwest Conference & 25 SWAC ) . The Tigers have won the most SWAC Championships to date .
The Southwestern Athletic Conference ( SWAC ) is a collegiate athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham , Alabama , which is made up of historically black colleges and universities ( HBCUs ) in the Southern United States . It participates in the NCAA 's Division I for all sports ; in football , it participates in the Football Championship Subdivision ( FCS ) , formerly referred to as Division I-AA . The SWAC is widely considered the premier HBCU conference and ranks among the elite in the nation in terms of alumni affiliated with professional sports teams , particularly in football . On the gridiron , the conference has been the biggest draw on the Football Championship Subdivision ( FCS ) level of the NCAA , leading the nation in average home attendance every year except one since FCS has been in existence . In 1994 , the SWAC fell just 40,000 fans short of becoming the first non-Football Bowl Subdivision conference to attract one million fans to its home games .