Paul Dekker

Paul Dekker
Career information
No. 83
Date of birth	(1931-02-24)February 24, 1931
Place of birth	Muskegon, Michigan
Date of death	May 8, 2001(2001-05-08) (aged 70)
CFL status	International
Position(s)	WR
Height	6 ft 5 in (196 cm)
Weight	220 lb (100 kg)
College	Michigan State
NFL draft	1953 / Round: 3 / Pick: 27
Drafted by	Washington Redskins
Career history
As player
1953	Washington Redskins
1954–1962	Hamilton Tiger-Cats (CFL)
CFL East All-Star	1958, 1959, 1960, 1961
Career stats
Playing stats at NFL.com Playing stats at DatabaseFootball.com

Paul Nelson Dekker (February 24, 1931 – May 8, 2001) was an American and Canadian football player for the Michigan State Spartans and professionally for the Washington Redskins and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

College career

At Michigan State, Dekker was a starting end in his junior and senior years. The Spartans were runners-up for the 1951 National Championship in the Associated Press poll and National Champions in the undefeated 1952 season .

1952 Michigan State Spartans Stats

He was selected by the Associated Press as a member of their All‑Western team.

Paul Dekker named to the All American Blockers for 1952, named by Wirt Gammon of the Chattanooga Times. As told by Bernie McCarty

Dekker represented the Spartans in the annual East‑West Shrine contest, pulling in a game-record nine receptions for 100 yards. A member of the 1953 College All‑Stars and the 1953 Hula Bowl squad, he was selected in the third round of the 1953 NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins. While at Michigan State, Dekker joined the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity.

He was a Spartan Football Letterwinner in 1951-1952. See Page 231.

Professional career

Dekker remained with the Redskins for only one season. In 1954, he joined the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League. In nine seasons at Hamilton, Dekker played in the Grey Cup championship contest five times, winning once in 1957. He was elected to the All Eastern/All Western All‑Star team four times and tied a Grey Cup record for the longest completed pass with a 90‑yard touchdown reception in the Tiger‑Cats' 21‑14 overtime loss to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the 1961 Grey Cup game. He died before seeing the record broken in the year after he passed. Dekker retired from professional football following the 1962 season.

Paul Dekker Football Statistics on Fanbase.com

Paul Dekker CFL Statistics

Legacy

He is a member of the Muskegon Area Sports Hall of Fame and got his start at Muskegon High

Dekker was selected as an honorary member of Hamilton's "Fabulous Fifties Team of the Decade."

1952 Michigan State Spartans football—consensus national champions

Paul Dekker Frank Kush Dick Tamburo Willie Thrower Billy Wells Tom Yewcic Bert Zagers Head coach: Clarence Munn Assistant coaches: Duffy Daugherty Dan Devine Earle Edwards Dewey King Steve Sebo

Washington Redskins 1953 NFL Draft selections

Jack Scarbath Dick Modzelewski Paul Dekker Don Boll Nick Carras Lew Weidensaul Alex Webster Buzz Nutter Ed Timmerman Dave Suminski Jim Slay Bob Haner Jim Turner Tom Flyzik Bill Link Jim Dublinski Ed Pucci Ed Bierne Stan Butterworth Art Hurd Walt Ashcraft John Zanetti Bob Buckley Pat Shires Bob Mathias

Draft years 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1950 AAFC 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Hamilton Tiger-Cats 45th Grey Cup champions

Head coach: Jim Trimble

Assistants: Ralph Sazio * Jack Jacobs * George Terlep

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