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Wallace Triplett is a former American football player who played for the Detroit Lions and the Chicago Cardinals in the National Football League (NFL). He was born on April 18, 1926 in La Mott, Pennsylvania. He attended Penn State University, where he was the first African-American to play in the Cotton Bowl.
Triplett was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the third round of the 1949 NFL Draft. He played for the Lions for two seasons before being traded to the Chicago Cardinals in 1951. He played for the Cardinals for three seasons before retiring in 1953.
Triplett was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1992. He was also inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 1993.
Triplett is currently 92 years old. He has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
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18 April |
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La Mott, Pennsylvania |
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November 8, 2018 |
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Detroit, Michigan |
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United States |
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Wallace Triplett Net Worth
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Following the 1950 season, Triplett became the first NFL player drafted into military service for the Korean War. When he returned from active duty, the Lions traded him to the Chicago Cardinals. He retired from professional football in 1953. After his playing days, Triplett worked as a teacher, in the insurance business, and in management for the Chrysler Corporation. Triplett died on November 8, 2018, at age 92.
Triplett also co-founded the Gamma Nu chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha while at Penn State. Triplett returned to Penn State on November 11, 2015, to meet with head coach James Franklin and the team after their bye-week scrimmage.
On October 29, 1950, in a game against the Los Angeles Rams, Triplett set the Lions' single-game record for kickoff return yardage with 294 yards, the third-highest total (NFL record is 304 yards) in NFL history, including a 97-yard touchdown return.
Although Triplett was the third African-American chosen in the 1949 NFL Draft, he was the first of the draftees to take the field in a league game. Undrafted "free agent" African-Americans had previously played in the league. The 5'-10", 173-pound running back and return specialist played for the Detroit Lions from 1949 to 1950.
In 1948, Triplett became the first African-American to play in the Cotton Bowl Classic, catching the tying touchdown in Penn State's 13–13 tie with Southern Methodist University.
Along with Dennis Hoggard, Triplett was one of the first African-Americans to take the field in a varsity football game for the Penn State Nittany Lions. During the 1946 season, the Penn State team voted to cancel a regular-season game in Miami against the Miami Hurricanes, rather than compromise by not bringing their black players. (Miami, like other southern schools at the time, refused to compete against integrated schools unless they left their black players at home.)
Triplett, the son of a postal worker, was born and raised in the Philadelphia suburb of La Mott, Pennsylvania, part of Cheltenham Township. His reputation as a talented high school football player, combined with his upscale address, prompted the University of Miami to offer him a scholarship sight unseen, under the assumption Triplett was white. The then-segregated university rescinded the scholarship whey discovered Triplett was black. Triplett instead earned a Senatorial Scholarship for his academics and chose to attend Penn State University in the fall of 1945.
Wallace Triplett (April 18, 1926 – November 8, 2018) was a professional American football player, the first African-American draftee to play for a National Football League team. For that reason, his portrait hangs in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
