File:Kercher-Dick-1953.jpg

Richard S. "Dick" Kercher (b. 1932), halfback for the University of Tulsa Golden Hurricane and the Detroit Lions of the National Football League, 1953.

Photographer uncredited.

Published in Jack Byrne and Malcolm Reiss (eds.), 1953 Illustrated Football Annual. New York: Fiction House, 1953; p. 79.

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