Walt Schlinkman

Walt Schlinkman
Career information

Date of birth	(1922-05-02)May 2, 1922
Place of birth	Channing, TX
Date of death	October 5, 1994(1994-10-05) (aged 72)
Place of death	Weimar, Texas
Position(s)	Fullback
College	Texas Tech
NFL draft	1945 / Round: 1 / Pick: 11
Career history
As player
1946-1949	Green Bay Packers
Career stats
Playing stats at DatabaseFootball.com

Walter Gaye Schlinkman is a former fullback in the NFL who played 46 games for the Green Bay Packers. In 1945, the Green Bay Packers used the 11th pick in the 1st round of the 1945 NFL Draft to sign Schlinkman out of Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University). Schlinkman went on to play for four seasons with the Packers and retired in 1949.

External links

Packers.com
Walt Schlinkman at Find a Grave

1945 NFL draft first-round selections

Charley Trippi Paul Duhart Joe Renfroe Eddie Prokop Elroy Hirsch Frank Szymanski Don Lund Jim Hardy John Yonakor Elmer Barbour Walt Schlinkman

Green Bay Packers first-round draft picks

Letlow Jankowski Isbell Buhler Van Every Paskvan Odson Wildung Pregulman Schlinkman Strzykalski Case Girard Heath Tonnemaker Gain Parilli Carmichael Hunter Switzer Bettis Losch Hornung Kramer Currie Duncan Moore Adderley Gros Robinson Voss Anderson Elkins Grabowski Gillingham Hyland Horn Carr Lueck Moore McCoy McGeorge Brockington Buchanon Tagge Barry Smith Barty Smith Koncar Butler E. Johnson Lofton J. Anderson Ivery B. Clark Cumby Campbell Hallstrom Lewis Carreker Ruettgers Fullwood Sharpe Mandarich Bennett Thompson V. Clark Buckley Simmons Teague Taylor Newsome Michels Verba Holliday Edwards Franks Reynolds Walker Barnett Carroll Rodgers Hawk Harrell Raji Matthews Bulaga Sherrod Perry Jones Clinton-Dix Randall

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Houston Oilers 1960 AFL Champions

Head coach: Lou Rymkus

Houston Oilers 1961 AFL Champions

Head coaches: Lou Rymkus
Wally Lemm

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