Ralph Wenzel • 1939 • End
Ralph Wenzel, a right end at Tulane for three years, earned All-America status as a senior in 1939. Wenzel led a Green Wave team that went 8-0-1 in the regular season and met Texas A&M in the Sugar Bowl. Wenzel went on to play one season with the Pittsburgh Steelers. After football, he began a career in the U.S. Marine Corps, from which he retired in 1978 as a lieutenant colonel with 32 years of service. He was inducted into the Tulane Athletic Hall of Fame in 1988. He resides in Lexington, Ky. |
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