Colin Edwin Ridgway was an American football punter distinguished as being the first Australian to play in the National Football League.
10 Facts About Colin Ridgway
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Colin Ridgway competed in the high jump at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
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Colin Ridgway played Aussie rules football for Carlton's U19s and reserves.
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Colin Ridgway later played for a Savannah, Georgia, team to gain experience.
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Colin Ridgway was murdered in 1993, and though Kenneth Bicking Jr.
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Kenneth Alfred Bicking III, suspected by authorities as a killer-for-hire in Colin Ridgway's murder, was convicted of a separate violent crime in 2014.
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Colin Ridgway was a high jumper who competed at the 1956 Olympic Games and the 1958 Commonwealth Games for Australia.
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Colin Ridgway failed to make the 1960 Australian Olympic team and so accepted an offer of a track and field scholarship to Lamar Tech.
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Colin Ridgway was waived on 24 August 1966, and at the request of the Cowboys, he accepted to play with the Savannah, Georgia, team of the North American Football League, in order to gain more experience.
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Colin Ridgway was murdered at his University Park, Texas, home in 1993.