Dr. Warren Eugene Amling (December 29, 1924 – November 1, 2001) was an

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and

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player, playing for the

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from 1944 to 1946. He was inducted into the

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in 1984. In 1945 Amling was a consensus

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selection at

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on the Buckeye football team and finished seventh in the vote for the

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In 1946 he was elected the

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and volunteered to move to tackle, a position where the team was thinner. At this new position he was again named an All American by the ''

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'' and the

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. Amling was inducted into the

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in 1981 and the College Football Hall of Fame in 1984, and was selected to the

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(at guard) in 2000. Amling was also a starter for the Ohio State basketball team. He is the only member of the College Football Hall of Fame to start in an NCAA Final Four game. Amling graduated with honors from Ohio State's Veterinary Medicine School in 1947 (he wanted to attend the University of Illinois, but they did not offer a school of veterinary medicine at that time) and turned down a chance to play for the

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, choosing instead to open a "large animal" practice

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in Pana, Illinois and later to open a "small animal" practice with one of his college classmates in

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. He served as a member of the board of directors of

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in the late 1970s. Amling was adjunct associate professor at The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine from 1983 to 1990. He was chosen in 2000 as a member of the Ohio State Football All-Century Team.

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