Julius William Contz (born May 12, 1961) is a former

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

offensive tackle who played six seasons in the

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(NFL) with the

Cleveland Browns The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland. Named after original coach and co-founder Paul Brown, they compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (A ...

and

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. He was selected by the Browns in the fifth round of the

1983 NFL Draft The 1983 NFL Draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players. It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting. The draft was held April 26–27, 1983, at the New York Sh ...

. He played college football at Pennsylvania State University and was a starter on the school's first ever national championship team in 1982. He attended Belle Vernon Area High School in

Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania Belle Vernon is a borough in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It is situated along the Monongahela River abutting two other counties, Westmoreland to the north and Washington across the river. As of the 2020 census Belle Vernon had a population of ...

. Contz's book "When the Lions Roared:

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and One of College Football's Greatest Teams" (Triumph Books) was released in September 2017.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Contz, Bill Living people 1961 births American football offensive tackles Penn State Nittany Lions football players Cleveland Browns players New Orleans Saints players Players of American football from Fayette County, Pennsylvania