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| Position: | Linebacker | ||||||||
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| Born: | July 5, 1956 LaRue, Texas, U.S. | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 220 lb (100 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Bishop Gorman (Tyler, Texas) | ||||||||
| College: | Oklahoma | ||||||||
| NFL draft: | 1980 / round: 1 / pick: 26 | ||||||||
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George Edward Cumby (born July 5, 1956) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL) during the 1980s. He played college football for the Oklahoma Sooners, thrice earning All-American honors, including a unanimous selection in 1979. A first-round pick in the 1980 NFL draft, Cumby played professionally for the Green Bay Packers, Buffalo Bills, and Philadelphia Eagles of the NFL. He was an athletic director and head football coach for Bishop Thomas K. Gorman Catholic School in Tyler, Texas. In 2016, he served as director of recruitment at Jacksonville College (TX).[1]
Cumby has coached college football at Texas College, and Tyler Junior College. He has coached at his alma mater Tyler- Bishop T.K . Gorman for two stints and at All Saints Episcopal School in Tyler.
Ordained to preach several years ago in Houston, Cumby is currently the pastor of Noonday Methodist Church, 17320 state Hwy 155, Flint, Tx.
- ^ Doc Smith Sports Correspondent. "Former NFL star takes reins at JC as director of recruitment". Daily Progress Jacksonville, TX. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
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