Ronnie Caveness
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| Position: | Houston, Texas, U.S. | ||||
| Died: | May 10, 2014 (aged 71) | ||||
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| High school: | Houston (TX) M.B. Smiley | ||||
| College: | Arkansas | ||||
| NFL draft: | 1965 / Round: 9 / Pick: 121 (by the Los Angeles Rams)[1] | ||||
| AFL draft: | 1965 / Round: 2 / Pick: 16 (by the Kansas City Chiefs)[2] | ||||
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Ronald Glen Caveness (March 6, 1943 – May 10, 2014) was an American football linebacker for the American Football League (AFL)'s Houston Oilers and Kansas City Chiefs from 1965 to 1968.
Caveness played
Caveness led the Razorbacks to an undefeated season in 1964 (11-0), winning the
Caveness also spent the 1973 season as a linebacker coach for the Houston Oilers. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2010.
He died of melanoma at the age of 71 on 10 May 2014.[4] After death he was diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy.[5] He was one of at least 345 NFL players to be diagnosed after death with this disease, which is caused by repeated hits to the head.[6][7]
See also
References
- ^ "1965 Los Angeles Rams". databaseFootball.com. Archived from the original on September 8, 2007. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "1965 AFL Draft". Archived from the original on February 25, 2017. Retrieved March 23, 2017.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-17. Retrieved 2008-01-12.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Arkansas Razorbacks Media Guide - ^ Caveness, Former Arkansas Great, Dies at 71
- ^ "110 N.F.L. Brains". New York Times. July 25, 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
- ^ "The driving force behind Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)". Concussion Legacy Foundation. Retrieved July 2, 2023.
- ^ Ken Belson and Benjamin Mueller (June 20, 2023). "Collective Force of Head Hits, Not Just the Number of Them, Increases Odds of C.T.E. The largest study of chronic traumatic encephalopathy to date found that the cumulative force of head hits absorbed by players in their careers is the best predictor of future brain disease". The New York Times. Retrieved July 2, 2023.
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