Arthur Hunter (April 24, 1933 – December 25, 2009) was an

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who played twelve seasons in the

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(NFL), mainly for the

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Notre Dame years

At Notre Dame he played under head coach Frank Leahy who was the former line coach for the Seven Blocks of Granite and played shoulder-to-shoulder with guard

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, center Jim Schrader, and fullback

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as the main blockers for Heisman Trophy winning running back Johnny Lattner. His senior year, the 1953 Notre Dame team finished the season 9–1, and had an unprecedented 12 players drafted to 1954 NFL draft. In a September 13, 1954

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article, writer Herman Hickman describes the 1953 Notre Dame team by writing:

Frankly, it's hard to see how any squad could lose such men as Halfback Johnny Lattner, Fullback Neil Worden, Tackle Art Hunter, Center Jim Schrader and Guard Menil Mavraides and still be a top-ranked team. Each was on some All-American or other. Lattner, Worden and Hunter were first-round Pro draft choices. Schrader was a second-round choice. Mavraides a third. But Notre Dame is not an ordinary football team, it's Notre Dame. . . . Notre Dame doesn't lose too often.

NFL career

Listed at 6' 4" and 245 lbs, Hunter first played for the

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as their number one draft choice (Number 3 overall). After not playing the 1955 season, Arthur, then went on to play under head coach

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, with Jim Brown and the rest of the Cleveland Browns for four seasons as Center. He then played Center for five years with the slumping Rams, and finally one year with the

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. Over Hunter's twelve seasons with the NFL he recovered four fumbles. In 1960, he was an AP second-team All-NFL selection.

References

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