Ricky Churchman
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| Position: | Defensive back |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | March 14, 1958 Pearland, Texas, U.S. |
| Height: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Weight: | 195 lb (88 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school: | Pearland |
| College: | Texas |
| NFL draft: | 1980 / Round: 4 / Pick: 84 |
| Career history | |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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| Career NFL statistics | |
| Player stats at NFL.com · PFR | |
Richard Cecil Churchman (born March 14, 1958) is a former American football defensive back who played two seasons with the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL) where he earned a Super Bowl ring. He played college football at the University of Texas at Austin and attended Pearland High School in Pearland, Texas.[1]
College career
Churchman played for the Texas Longhorns from 1976-1979, the last three as a starter, playing on a team that was ranked #1 for most of the season and which came one-win away from winning the National Championship in 1977. In that season, the Longhorns suffered numerous injuries at quarterback, and when their only healthy QB had to come out for a single play to change his torn uniform, Churchman was sent in for one play to hand the ball off to Johnny "Lam" Jones. Jones ran the ball 70 yards for a touchdown.[2]
The next season, the team finished #9 after winning the Sun Bowl and the season after that was #12 after losing the Sun Bowl. in 1979 he made the All-Southwest conference team. In 1992, he was named to the Austin American-Statesman Longhorns' All-Centennial Team.[3]
Pro Career
Churchman was drafted by the 49ers in the fourth round of the
In 1981, he started the season still recovering from his knee injury, but saw playing time early in the season. In October he underwent another knee surgery and spent the rest of the season on the injured reserve. The San Francisco 49ers won Super Bowl XVI and he earned a ring, but he did not play in that game or any of the playoff games. He had a third knee surgery in early 1982. At the start of the 1982 season, he was cut by the 49ers.[6]
Later life
Churchman returned to Texas, earning a Business degree and then went to work for Lockheed where he was a business manager for the company's Tomahawk Cruise Missile Project.[4] Later he moved to Richland, WA, where he worked as the controller and director of finance and accounting for Lockheed's Mission Support Alliance that provided services to cleanup contractors.[7]
References
- ^ "RICKY CHURCHMAN". profootballarchives.com. Archived from the original on March 18, 2015. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
- ^ "LETTERS TO THE SPORTS EDITOR". Austin American-Statesman. 5 December 1993.
- ^ "A thundering herd all by himself". Austin American-Statesman. 22 November 1992.
- ^ a b c "Churchman limps after his painful, successful career". Austin American-Statesman. 22 November 1993.
- ^ "6 interceptions tie 49er club record in 21-17 upset of Patriots". The Baltimore Sun. 1 December 1980.
- ^ [The Baltimore Sun "Transactions"]. 1 September 1982.
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