playing_years databasefootball draftedround birth_place playing_team collegehof article_title position birth_date draftedpick college name draftedyear
1970 -- 1972 1973 -- 1978 babicbob01 1 youngstown , ohio san diego chargers cleveland browns 60066 bob babich -lrb- linebacker -rrb-
 linebacker 5 may 1947 18 miami -lrb- ohio -rrb- bob babich 1969
bob babich -lrb- linebacker -rrb-

robert babich -lrb- born may 5 , 1947 -rrb- is a former american football linebacker who played nine seasons in the national football league -lrb- nfl -rrb- with the san diego chargers and the cleveland browns .
he played college football at miami university in oxford , ohio and was elected to the college football hall of fame in 1994 .
babich played high school football for campbell memorial high school in campbell , ohio .
he was a first-team all-america linebacker for miami university , known then as the redskins .
he graduated in 1969 .
he was voted the `` most valuable player '' award twice by his teammates and selected as miami 's `` athlete of the year '' for the 1968-69 academic year .
a two-time unanimous all-mid-american conference linebacker , he was also voted the `` defensive player of the year '' in the mac as he captained the 1968 team .
babich was selected first-team all-america by the football coaches association , the sporting news and time magazine .
he played in the american , north-south and senior bowls .
he was a first-round draft choice of the san diego chargers in the 1969 nfl draft , the 18th selection overall and the second linebacker taken .
in three seasons for the chargers , he saw action in all 42 regular-season games .
on sept. 6 , 1973 , he was traded to the cleveland browns for a first-round draft choice in 1974 and a second-round pick in 1975 .
he played six seasons for the browns , missing only three games -lrb- in 1975 -rrb- during those seasons .
ironically , it was that season in which he started every game he played -- the only games he started in his career .
babich was inducted into the miami university athletics hall of fame in 1975 .
his 1994 election to the college football hall of fame made him the first miami -lrb- ohio -rrb- player to be enshrined .
