.jpg) Pomeroy in 1950 | |
| Stanford Indians | |
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| Position | Linebacker, guard |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | (1927-06-23)June 23, 1927 Fontenelle, Wyoming, U.S. |
| Died: | April 6, 2019(2019-04-06) (aged 91) Highlands Ranch, Colorado, U.S. |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Weight | 208 lb (94 kg) |
| Career history | |
| College |
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| High school | Whittier Union (CA) |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Russell Alfred Pomeroy (June 23, 1927 – April 6, 2019) was anAmerican footballlinebacker and guard who played who played forStanford from 1949 to 1950.
Pomeroy was born in 1927 on a ranch inFontenelle, Wyoming. He attendedWhittier Union High School inWhittier, California. He served in the U.S. Merchant Marines and also as a U.S. Army paratrooper.[1]
In 1950, he received thePop Warner Trophy as the outstanding senior football player on the West Coast.[2] He was also selected by both theAssociated Press (AP), theUnited Press (UP), and the conference coaches as a first-team linebacker on the1950 All-Pacific Coast football team.[3][4][5]
Pomeroy received a degree in petroleum geology and spent his career working in oil and gas exploration in Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah. He worked for many years for Occidental Petroleum before forming his own company, Sunburst Exploration, developing oil fields in Utah and Colorado.[1]