Tom Dixon (American football)
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Tom Dixon is a former All-America
n football
center who played for the Michigan Wolverines
from 1980 to 1983. Dixon started every game for the Wolverines in the 1981, 1982, and 1983 seasons. He was named a first-team All-American in 1983 by UPI, Kodak and Walter Camp and helped the Wolverines win Big Ten championships in 1980 and 1981. Dixon also had a 3.27 GPA in pre-medicine, was named to the Big Ten and All-American academic teams and won an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. He was drafted in 1984 by the Michigan Panthers
of the United States Football League
. The Detroit News recently published a list of the greatest players by jersey number in Michigan sports history (both professional and collegiate), naming Dixon as the best Michigan athlete to wear the #69.
All-America
An All-America team is an honorary sports team composed of outstanding amateur players—those considered the best players of a specific season for each team position—who in turn are given the honorific "All-America" and typically referred to as "All-American athletes", or simply...
n 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...
center who played for the Michigan Wolverines
Michigan Wolverines football
The Michigan Wolverines football program represents the University of Michigan in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. Michigan has the most all-time wins and the highest winning percentage in college football history...
from 1980 to 1983. Dixon started every game for the Wolverines in the 1981, 1982, and 1983 seasons. He was named a first-team All-American in 1983 by UPI, Kodak and Walter Camp and helped the Wolverines win Big Ten championships in 1980 and 1981. Dixon also had a 3.27 GPA in pre-medicine, was named to the Big Ten and All-American academic teams and won an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. He was drafted in 1984 by the Michigan Panthers
Michigan Panthers
The Michigan Panthers were a professional American football team that played in the United States Football League in the mid-1980s.-Team history:The Michigan Panthers were named as a charter member of the United States Football League on May 11, 1982....
of the United States Football League
United States Football League
The United States Football League was an American football league which was in active operation from 1983 to 1987. It played a spring/summer schedule in its first three seasons and a traditional autumn/winter schedule was set to commence before league operations ceased.The USFL was conceived in...
. The Detroit News recently published a list of the greatest players by jersey number in Michigan sports history (both professional and collegiate), naming Dixon as the best Michigan athlete to wear the #69.