Rocky Rasley is a former American football

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 guard in the National Football League

National Football League

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 from 1969–1970, 1972-1976. He attended Bakersfield's South High School

South High School (Bakersfield, California)

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 and Bakersfield College

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 before enrolling at Oregon State University

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 where he played college football

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 under Dee Andros

Dee Andros

Demosthenes Konstandies "Dee" Andrecopoulos was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator in the United States. He served as the head football coach at the University of Idaho from 1962 to 1964 and at Oregon State University from 1965 to 1975, compiling career...

 during the "Giant Killers" season of 1967. http://oregonstate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=121020 The entire 1967 squad was later inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame. Rasley was also inducted into the Bob Elias Kern County Sports Hall of Fame.

Rasley was one of five Beavers

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 selected in the 1969 NFL Draft

1969 NFL Draft

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, and was selected in the ninth round (216th overall) by the Detroit Lions

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. http://www.osubeavers.com/pdf7/17831.pdf?ATCLID=153842&SPSID=27968&SPID=1952&DB_OEM_ID=4700. He played with the Lions for the 1969 and 1970 seasons, was on the Lions' taxi-squad during 1971, and rejoined the team for the 1972 and 1973 seasons. http://beckys-place.com/2005images/rasleybio.jpg He then went to the New Orleans Saints

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 for a season, followed by a season with the Kansas City Chiefs

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. Rasley was selected by the Seattle Seahawks

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 in the 1976 NFL Expansion Draft

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, but did not make the active roster and wound up playing for the San Francisco 49ers

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 his last season. http://beckys-place.com/60rasley.html

Prior to joining the NFL, Rasley was a competitive wrestler, and was a member of the United States wrestling team that competed at the 1969 FILA Wrestling World Championships

1969 FILA Wrestling World Championships

The 1969 FILA Wrestling World Championships were held in Mar del Plata, Argentina.-Medal table:-Freestyle:-Greco-Roman:-See also:List of World and Olympic Champions in men's freestyle wrestling...

.http://www.iat.uni-leipzig.de/datenbanken/dbwrest/start.php Rasley also wrestled for the Oregon State Beavers wrestling

Oregon State Beavers wrestling

The Oregon State Beavers wrestling program was established in 1909, competing in collegiate wrestling across 92 seasons since then. Traditionally a national powerhouse, the Beavers won the Amateur Athletic Union national championship in 1926 and have won their conference championship 47 times...

team, and was a letterman in 1968. http://osubeavers.nmnathletics.com//pdf6/26123.pdf?SPSID=37974&SPID=1958&DB_OEM_ID=4700