33 Facts About Weldon Humble

Weldon Gaston "Hum" Humble was an American football guard who played five seasons in the All-America Football Conference and National Football League for the Cleveland Browns and Dallas Texans in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Weldon Humble enrolled at Rice University in Houston, Texas in 1940 and played three seasons on the school's football team.

Weldon Humble then spent three years in the US Marines during World War II, serving in the Pacific War and earning a Bronze Star Medal before returning to complete his college studies in 1946.

Weldon Humble became an anchor on Cleveland's offensive line, helping the team win three straight AAFC titles in the late 1940s.

Weldon Humble, who remained in the Marine Reserves, was called into service in the Korean War after the season.

Weldon Humble was expected to return to Cleveland the following year, but head coach Paul Brown traded him to the Texans before the 1952 season began.

Weldon Humble was the chairman of the selection committee for the Bluebonnet Bowl.

Weldon Humble was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1961, and was named to the Texas Sports Hall of Fame and the South Texas Football Hall of Fame in 1969.

Weldon Humble is a member of the Rice University Athletics Hall of Fame.

Weldon Humble died in 1998 in Houston following a long illness.

Weldon Humble was born in Nixon, Texas, a suburb of San Antonio, in 1921.

Weldon Humble played as an end for two seasons and a fullback for a third season on the football team.

Weldon Humble played on the basketball, track and swimming teams before graduating and enrolling at Rice University in Houston, Texas in 1940.

Weldon Humble began play on Rice's freshman team as an end in 1940.

Weldon Humble left Rice in 1943 for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, then called Southwestern Louisiana Institute, to prepare for service in World War II in a V-12 US Navy training program.

Weldon Humble rose to the rank of first lieutenant and won a Bronze Star Medal.

Weldon Humble lettered in football and track and field and was voted a consensus first-team All-American guard while captain of Rice's Southwest Conference co-champion team.

Paul Brown, the coach of the Cleveland Browns in the All-America Football Conference, met Weldon Humble while vacationing in Florida in 1946.

Weldon Humble saw Humble and his wife Lorraine, whom Humble had met while in training at Southwestern, on a dance floor at the hotel.

Weldon Humble engineered a trade that sent four players including quarterback Steve Nemeth and guard George Cheroke to the Colts, plus two players to be named later.

In Cleveland, Weldon Humble was part of an offensive line that included Lin Houston, Ed Ulinski and Bob Gaudio.

Weldon Humble was a consensus second-team All-Pro selection in 1948, when Cleveland won all of its games.

Cleveland's success continued in the NFL in 1950, when Weldon Humble was used on occasion as a linebacker on defense.

Weldon Humble was selected to play in the first-ever Pro Bowl, the NFL's all-star game.

Weldon Humble continued as a member of the Marine Reserves as his professional career continued, and in 1951 he was in danger of being called up for service in the Korean War.

Weldon Humble re-enlisted in the summer and played for a military team at Marine Corps Base Quantico later in the year.

Weldon Humble was expected to return to the Browns after his discharge from the military in 1952.

Weldon Humble later became vice-president of an office supply firm called Stationers, Inc Weldon Humble maintained an affiliation with his Texas alma mater, serving as president and later director of the R Association, an alumni group for former Rice student-athletes.

Weldon Humble became the first Rice player inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1961.

Weldon Humble was included on a 50th anniversary All-Southwest Conference team in 1968, and in 1970 was one of the first people inducted into the Rice University Athletics Hall of Fame.

Weldon Humble was inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame and the South Texas Football Hall of Fame in 1969.

Later in life, Weldon Humble worked for the Harris County Appraisal Review Board and was a salesman for an office furniture supply company.

Weldon Humble died in 1998 in Houston after a long illness.