Raymond Fredrick Zeh (October 22, 1914 – December 23, 2003) was an

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and

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who played college football for Western Reserve University—now known as

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—from 1934 to 1936. During the 1935 season, he led college football in

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with 112 points. Western Reserve has a combined record of 26–1–2 during his Zeh's three on the team, with the only loss coming against the

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in 1934. Zeh graduated from Collinwood High School in

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in 1933. He was a member of

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fraternity while at Western Reserve. Zeh married Evelyn M. Anderson, 1938 grad of Mather College, and together had a son named Raymond Zeh, Jr., born in 1944. Zeh is buried at Clarendon Hills Cemetery, located in

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