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John C Treadwell (May 19, 1941 – December 14, 2014) was an
American football American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at e ...
player. Treadwell was born in
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, in 1941. He attended Stephen F. Austin High School and then enrolled at the
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. He played
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at the
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and
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positions for the
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team from 1960 to 1962. He was a consensus first-team guard on the 1962 All-America team, and was also named an Academic All-American in 1962 and 1963. The ''
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'' named him the Most Valuable Player on defense in the
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for 1962, and he played in the 1963 Hula Bowl. Treadwell later worked as a veterinarian for almost 40 years. He suffered from
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, caused by repetitive brain trauma, in his later years. He died in 2014 of natural causes at age 73.


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Johnny Treadwell profile

Texas Longhorns (Sports Publishing LLC, 2005), by Whit Canning
pp. 166–170 {{DEFAULTSORT:Treadwell, Johnny 1941 births 2014 deaths All-American college football players Texas Longhorns football players