Elmo Wright

Elmo Wright
Career information
Date of birth	(1949-07-03) July 3, 1949
Place of birth	Brazoria, Texas
Position(s)	Wide Receiver
College	Houston
NFL draft	1971 / Round: 1 / Pick 16
Career history
As player
1971-1974	Kansas City Chiefs
1975	Houston Oilers
1975	New England Patriots
Honors	All-American (1970) All-Rookie (1971)
Career stats
Playing stats at DatabaseFootball.com

Elmo Wright is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). While at the University of Houston, he became the first football player ever to perform an end zone dance.^[1]

Wright was an All-American receiver for the Cougars and, somewhere during his collegiate career, he began the practice of "high-stepping" into the end zone at the end of long touchdown receptions. While this was no comparison to the antics later displayed by such famed celebrators as Billy "White Shoes" Johnson, Ickey Woods or Terrell Owens, it was almost equally shocking at the time.

Following his college playing days, Wright went on to star for the Kansas City Chiefs.

He currently resides in Houston, TX.

References

↑ Finley, Bill (2005-11-13). "Father of End-Zone Dance Explains His Happy Feet". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-09-16.

1970 College Football All-America Team consensus selections

Offense	QB Jim Plunkett RB Don McCauley RB Steve Worster E Tom Gatewood E Ernie Jennings E Elmo Wright OT Dan Dierdorf OT Bob Newton OT Bobby Wuensch G Larry DiNardo G Chip Kell C Don Popplewell

Defense	DE Bill Atessis DE Charlie Weaver DE Jack Youngblood DT Dick Bumpas DT Rock Perdoni NG Jim Stillwagon LB Mike Anderson LB Jack Ham DB Tommy Casanova DB Dave Elmendorf DB Jack Tatum DB Larry Willingham

1971 NFL draft first-round selections

Jim Plunkett Archie Manning Dan Pastorini J. D. Hill Richard Harris John Riggins Joe Profit Frank Lewis John Brockington Isiah Robertson Joe Moore Marv Montgomery Leon Burns Clarence Scott Vernon Holland Elmo Wright Norm Thompson Rocky Thompson Jack Tatum Jack Youngblood Bob Bell Don McCauley Tim Anderson Leo Hayden Tody Smith Lenny Dunlap

Dallas Texans / Kansas City Chiefs first-round draft picks

Haynes Holub Bull Buchanan E. Budde Beathard Sayers Brown Trosch Moorman Daney Marsalis Smith Wright Kinney W. Green Walters G. Green Still Bell Fuller B. Budde Scott Hancock Blackledge Maas Alt Horton Jozwiak Palmer Smith Thomas Snow Williams Carter Hill Jenkins Woods Gonzalez Riley Tait Morris Sims L. Johnson D. Johnson Hali Bowe Dorsey Albert Jackson Berry Baldwin Poe Fisher Ford Peters

AFC East BUF MIA NE NYJ North BAL CIN CLE PIT South HOU IND JAX TEN West DEN KC OAK SD NFC East DAL NYG PHI WAS North CHI DET GB MIN South ATL CAR NO TB West ARI LA SF SEA

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