Arthur Hunter is a former American football

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 tackle who played twelve seasons in the National Football League

National Football League

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, mainly for the Los Angeles Rams.

NFL career

Listed at 6'-4" and 245 lbs, Hunter first played for the Green Bay Packers

Green Bay Packers

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 as their number one draft choice (Number 3 overall).

After not playing the 1955 season, Arthur, then went on to play under head coach Paul Brown

Paul Brown

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, with Jim Brown

Jim Brown

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 and the rest of the Cleveland Browns

Cleveland Browns

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 for four seasons as Center.

He then played Center for five years with the slumping Rams

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, and finally one year with the Steelers

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Over Hunter's twelve seasons with the NFL he recovered four fumbles.

In 1960 he was AP second-team All-NFL.

Notre Dame Years

At Notre Dame he played under head coach Frank Leahy

Frank Leahy

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 who was the former line coach for the Seven Blocks of Granite

Seven Blocks of Granite

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 and played shoulder-to-shoulder with Guard Menil Mavraides

Menil Mavraides

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, Center Jim Schrader

Jim Schrader

James Lee Schrader was an American football center and tackle in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins and the Philadelphia Eagles from 1954 to 1964....

, and Fullback Neil Worden

Neil Worden

Neil James Worden is a former American football fullback who played in the National Football League. He was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the 1954 NFL Draft and played in the 1954 and 1957 seasons. He played college football at the University of Notre Dame.-Collage Years:Worden went to...

 as the main blockers for Heisman Trophy

Heisman Trophy

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 winning running back Johnny Lattner

Johnny Lattner

John Joseph "Johnny" Lattner is a former American football player in the United States. He was a halfback for the University of Notre Dame where he won the Heisman Trophy in 1953, and won the Maxwell Award twice, in 1952 and 1953....

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His Senior year, the 1953 Notre Dame finished the season 9-1, and had an unprecedented 12 players drafted to 1954 NFL.

In the September 13, 1954 Sports Illustrated

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 article, writer Herman Hickman

Herman Hickman

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describes the 1953 Notre Dame team by writing:

Frankly, it's hard to see how any squad could lose such men as Halfback Johnny Lattner, Fullback Neil Worden, Tackle Art Hunter, Center Jim Schrader and Guard Menil Mavraides and still be a top-ranked team. Each was on some All-American or other. Lattner, Worden and Hunter were first-round Pro draft choices. Schrader was a second-round choice. Mavraides a third. But Notre Dame is not an ordinary football team, it's Notre Dame. . . . Notre Dame doesn't lose too often.