Horace Ivory
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Position: | Running back | ||||||
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Born: | Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. | August 8, 1954||||||
Height: | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||
Weight: | 197 lb (89 kg) | ||||||
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High school: | Fort Worth (TX) Nolan | ||||||
College: | Oklahoma | ||||||
NFL draft: | 1977 / round: 2 / pick: 44 | ||||||
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Horace Orlando Ivory (born August 8, 1954) is a former American football running back in the NFL from 1977 through 1982. He attended Nolan Catholic High School from 1968 to 1972 where he was a TCIL All-State running back. He was offered a football scholarship to Notre Dame University but for academic reasons, went to Navarro Junior College before transferring to the University of Oklahoma for his junior and senior seasons.
Ivory was a member of two national championship teams while at Oklahoma.
He was named to the NFL All-Pro team as a kick returner after the 1980 season with the New England Patriots.