Wear Schoonover

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Wear Schoonover
Arkansas Razorbacks
PositionEnd
ClassGraduate
Personal information
Born:March 18, 1910 (1910-03-18)
Pocahontas, Arkansas
Died:May 12, 1982 (1982-05-13) (aged 72)
Arlington, Virginia
Height6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Weight190 lb (86 kg)
Career history
College
Career highlights and awards
College Football Hall of Fame (1967)

Wear Kibler Schoonover (March 18, 1910 – May 12, 1982) was an American college football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1967.

Playing career[edit]

He was the first Arkansas Razorback, as well as the first Southwestern football player, to be on the All-American team.

Schoonover is one of five members of the inaugural class of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame.[1]

He was one of 11 All-American football players to appear in the 1930 film "Maybe It's Love".[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Wear Schoonover".
  2. ^ "Maybe It's Love". American Film Institute.

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