Elmo Wright is the first football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 player ever to perform an end zone dance, while at the University of Houston

University of Houston

The University of Houston is a state research university, and is the flagship institution of the University of Houston System. Founded in 1927, it is Texas's third-largest university with nearly 40,000 students. Its campus spans 667 acres in southeast Houston, and was known as University of...

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Wright was an All-American

1970 College Football All-America Team

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 receiver

Wide receiver

A wide receiver is an offensive position in American and Canadian football, and is the key player in most of the passing plays. Only players in the backfield or the ends on the line are eligible to catch a forward pass. The two players who begin play at the ends of the offensive line are eligible...

 for the Cougars and, somewhere during his collegiate career

College football

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, he began the practice of "high-stepping" into the end zone

End zone

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 at the end of long touchdown receptions. While this was no comparison to the antics later displayed by such famed celebrators as Billy "White Shoes" Johnson

Billy Johnson (football player)

William "Billy" Arthur Johnson, aka "White Shoes" , is a former American football player in the National Football League from 1974 through 1988...

, Ickey Woods

Ickey Woods

Elbert L. "Ickey" Woods is a former American football fullback who played his entire NFL career with the Cincinnati Bengals. He played college football at UNLV...

 or Terrell Owens

Terrell Owens

Terrell Owens is an American football wide receiver who is currently a free agent. A six-time Pro Bowl selection, Owens has been one of the dominant receivers of his era...

, it was almost equally shocking at the time.

Following his college playing days, Wright went on to star for the Kansas City Chiefs

Kansas City Chiefs

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He currently resides in Houston, TX.