Kent Ryan
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Born: | Midvale, Utah, U.S. | February 3, 1915||||||||||
Died: | February 2, 2006 | (aged 90)||||||||||
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College: | Utah State | ||||||||||
Position: | Halfback | ||||||||||
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Orson Kent Ryan (February 2, 1915 – February 3, 2006) was an American professional football player who was a defensive back for three seasons (1938, 1939, and 1940) for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He also served in the Army and was called in to serve in the South Pacific in 1941 for 5 years.
He, along with Don Hutson and Ace Parker, led the league in interceptions with 6 for the 1940 season, the first in which the NFL kept records.
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- 1915 births
- 2006 deaths
- All-American college men's basketball players
- People from Midvale, Utah
- Sportspeople from Salt Lake County, Utah
- Players of American football from Utah
- American football halfbacks
- Detroit Lions players
- Utah State Aggies football players
- Utah State Aggies men's basketball players
- American men's basketball players
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American football defensive back, pre-1930 birth stubs