Gerald Craft "Bones" Weatherly (December 26, 1928 – December 28, 2004) was an

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 wit ...

linebacker Linebacker (LB) is a playing position in gridiron football. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage and the defensive linemen. They are the "middle ground" of defenders, pl ...

who played five seasons with the

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of the

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(NFL). He was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the eighth round of the

1949 NFL Draft The 1949 National Football League Draft was held on December 21, 1948, at The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia. The draft was preceded by a secret draft meeting held November 15, 1948, at the Hotel Schenley in Pittsburgh. This was the ...

. Weatherly retired mid-season 1955 with a broken leg. He played college football at

Rice University William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a private research university in Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranked among the top universit ...

where he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1974. He attended

Cuero High School Cuero High School is a public high school located in Cuero, Texas, United States and classified as a 4A school by the University Interscholastic League (UIL). It is part of the Cuero Independent School District located in central DeWitt County. ...

Cuero, Texas Cuero ( ) is a city in and the county seat of DeWitt County, Texas, United States. Its population was 8,128 at the 2020 census. History The city of Cuero had its start in the mid-19th century as a stopping point on the Chisholm Trail cattle route ...

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1928 births 2004 deaths Players of American football from Houston American football linebackers Rice Owls football players Chicago Bears players People from Cuero, Texas {{Linebacker-1920s-stub