Rip Bachor | |
Birth Date: | December 10, 1901 |
Birth Place: | Calumet, Michigan, U.S. |
Death Place: | Lansing, Michigan, U.S. |
Height Ft: | 6 |
Height In: | 0 |
Weight Lbs: | 215 |
High School: | Western (Detroit, Michigan) |
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Pfr: | B/BachRi20 |
Ludwig Aloysius "Rip" Bachor (December 10, 1901 – December 11, 1959) was an American professional football player who was a tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for the Detroit Wolverines during the 1928 NFL season.[1]
Bachor was born in Calumet, Michigan, in 1901. He attended Western High School in Detroit before enrolling at the University of Detroit.[2] He played college football at the tackle position for the Detroit Titans football team from 1923 to 1926.[2] He was selected by Herbert Reed as a first-team player on the 1925 College Football All-America Team.[3] He was elected president of the school's "D" club in 1926.[4]
After his football career, Bachor received a law degree from the University of Detroit in 1927. He worked as prosecutor and later an employment manager for the Utica-Bend Corporation, a labor relations executive with Studebaker-Packar, and finally in the legal department of the Michigan highway department. He died of a heart attack in 1959 at age 58 at his home in Lansing, Michigan.[5] [6]