1. Alton Minor Coppage was a professional American football end who played five seasons in the National Football League and All-America Football Conference, mostly for the Chicago Cardinals.
13 Facts About Al Coppage
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Al Coppage grew up in Oklahoma and attended the University of Oklahoma, where he was part of the 1938 football team that won the school's first Big Six Conference championship.
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Al Coppage was drafted by the NFL's Cardinals in 1940.
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Al Coppage played in Chicago for three seasons before leaving to serve in World War II.
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Al Coppage signed with the Cleveland Browns in the AAFC after his discharge from the military and played one season for the team, moving to the Buffalo Bills in 1947.
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Al Coppage grew up in Hollis, Oklahoma and attended the University of Oklahoma in Norman.
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Al Coppage played football as an end for the Oklahoma Sooners for three years starting as a sophomore in 1937.
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Al Coppage was a member of a 1938 Sooners team that went undefeated and was ranked fourth in the country by the Associated Press before losing in the Orange Bowl to Tennessee.
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Al Coppage was selected by the Chicago Cardinals in the 1940 NFL draft.
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Al Coppage played for the team for three seasons before leaving to serve in the Pacific theater of World War II.
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Al Coppage played for the Buffalo Bills in 1947, his last year in professional football.
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The bank was robbed in 1975 when Al Coppage was working there with his wife Lillian, an assistant cashier.
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Al Coppage died in 1992 at Jackson County Memorial Hospital in Altus, Oklahoma.