Ad Wenke | |
Position: | Offensive tackle |
Birth Date: | 22 January 1898 |
Birth Place: | Pender, Nebraska, US |
Death Place: | Lincoln, Nebraska, US |
Height Ft: | 6 |
Height In: | 4 |
Weight Lbs: | 220 |
College: | Nebraska |
Pastteams: | |
Statlabel1: | Games played |
Statvalue1: | 12 |
Pfr: | WenkAd20 |
Adolph Eilert "Ad" Wenke (January 22, 1898 – March 3, 1961) was a player in the National Football League and a state supreme court justice in the state of Nebraska.[1] Of German ancestry, Wenke played college football for the Nebraska Cornhuskers. He played with the Milwaukee Badgers during the 1923 NFL season.[2] Wenke later became an attorney and a judge of the 9th Judicial District Court, and was appointed by Governor Dwight Griswold to serve as a justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, from 1943 until his death in 1961.