Position: | Tackle |
Birth Date: | 24 October 1903 |
Birth Place: | Quitsna, North Carolina, U.S. |
Death Place: | Palm Springs, California, U.S. |
Height Ft: | 6 |
Height In: | 2 |
Weight Lbs: | 240 |
High School: | East (OH) |
College: | Ohio State |
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Pfr: | HarrDu20 |
Edmund Dudley "Dud" Harris (October 24, 1903 – February 13, 1989) was an American football player, lawyer, and businessman.
Dudley was born in 1903 in Quitsna, North Carolina.[1] He moved as a child to Columbus, Ohio, and attended East High School in that city.[1] He enrolled at Marietta College where he competed in football, baseball, basketball, and track, and received 14 varsity letters. He was selected as captain of Marietta's football team as a junior in 1925.[2] [3] He received a law degree from Ohio State University, and also played college football there.[1]
He played professional football in the National Football League (NFL) as a tackle for the Portsmouth Spartans during the 1930 and 1931 seasons. He appeared in 13 NFL games, nine as a starter.[4]
He later became an attorney. He served for many years as assistant prosecuting attorney for Pike County, Ohio. In 1943, he attended the North Carolina Pre-Flight School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.[5] After the war, he moved to Oregon and eventually to California. He served as president of the Nutra-Vita Food Supplement Company from 1948 to 1955 and also served as chairman of the board.
In 1985, Harris was inducted into the Marietta College Hall of Fame.[6] He died in 1989 at age 85 in Palm Springs, California.[1]