Lee Robert Reno Artoe was a professional American 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 in the National Football League

National Football League

The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

 (NFL) and All-America Football Conference

All-America Football Conference

The All-America Football Conference was a professional American football league that challenged the established National Football League from 1946 to 1949. One of the NFL's most formidable challengers, the AAFC attracted many of the nation's best players, and introduced many lasting innovations...

 (AAFC) for 7 seasons. An offensive tackle, Artoe played for the NFL's Chicago Bears

Chicago Bears

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 (1940–1942, 1945). In the AAFC, he played for the Los Angeles Dons

Los Angeles Dons

The Los Angeles Dons were an American football team in the now defunct All-America Football Conference from 1946 to 1949 that played in the Los Angeles Coliseum....

 (1946–1947) and Baltimore Colts (1948).

Artoe played college football at University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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, with the
California Golden Bears

California Golden Bears football

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, and in 1940 was picked in the 11th round by Chicago.
He returned a fumble

Fumble

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 in the 1942 NFL Championship Game

NFL Championship Game, 1942

The 1942 National Football League Championship game was the NFL's tenth title game. The game was played on December 13, 1942 at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. and the attendance was 36,006....

 52 yards for the first score of the game.

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