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Ray Riddick
Raymond Ernest Riddick (October 17, 1917 – July 1976) was an American football player and coach. He played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) as an End (gridiron football), end with the Green Bay Packers from 1940 to 1942 and in 1946. Early years Born in Lowell, Massachusetts on October 17, 1917, Riddick attended Lowell High School (Lowell, Massachusetts), Lowell High School from 1932 to 1935, and then, before heading to college, the Archmere Academy, at the time an all-boys Roman Catholic preparatory boarding school in Claymont, Delaware. College career Riddick attended Fordham University from 1936 to 1940, where he played football under head coach Jim Crowley, and line coach Frank Leahy, and alongside the Seven Blocks of Granite including Vince Lombardi. In Riddick's freshman year, Fordham went 5–0–2 before losing what Lombardi called, "the most devastating loss of [his] life," when the Rams lost, 7–6, to NYU Violets football, NYU, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lowell, Massachusetts
Lowell () is a city in Massachusetts, in the United States. Alongside Cambridge, It is one of two traditional seats of Middlesex County. With an estimated population of 115,554 in 2020, it was the fifth most populous city in Massachusetts as of the last census, and the third most populous in the Boston metropolitan statistical area. The city also is part of a smaller Massachusetts statistical area, called Greater Lowell, and of New England's Merrimack Valley region. Incorporated in 1826 to serve as a mill town, Lowell was named after Francis Cabot Lowell, a local figure in the Industrial Revolution. The city became known as the cradle of the American Industrial Revolution because of its textile mills and factories. Many of Lowell's historic manufacturing sites were later preserved by the National Park Service to create Lowell National Historical Park. During the Cambodian genocide (1975–1979), the city took in an influx of refugees, leading to a Cambodia Town and Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
