Mike Oriard

American football player, college administrator, and professor

American football player

Mike Oriard
No. 50
Position:	Center, Guard
Personal information
Born:	(1948-05-26) May 26, 1948 (age 76) Spokane, Washington, U.S.
Height:	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Weight:	223 lb (101 kg)
Career information
High school:	Spokane (WA) Gonzaga Prep
College:	Notre Dame
NFL draft:	1970 / Round: 5 / Pick: 130
Career history
Kansas City Chiefs (1970–1973)



Player stats at PFR

Mike Oriard (born May 26, 1948) is a former professional American football player and college administrator and professor.

Early life and education

Oriard was born in Spokane, Washington. He was a standout athlete at Gonzaga Preparatory School in Spokane.

A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, he was a walk-on player in its football team.^[1]

Career

Oriard played offensive lineman for four seasons for the Kansas City Chiefs.^[2]

After retiring from football, he earned his PhD at Stanford and became a professor of English and later Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Oregon State University.^[3] His academic work has centered on American sports nonfiction in multiple media.

Works

Dreaming of Heroes: American Sports Fiction, 1868–1980 (1982)
Sporting with the Gods: The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Literature (1991) ISBN 9780521391139
Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle (Cultural Studies of the United States) (1998) ISBN 9780807847510
King Football: Sport and Spectacle in the Golden Age of Radio and Newsreels, Movies and Magazines, the Weekly and the Daily Press (2001)
Bowled Over: Big-Time College Football from the Sixties to the BCS Era (2009) ISBN 9780807833292
The End of Autumn: Reflections on My Life in Football (2009)^[1] ISBN 9780252076695
Brand NFL: Making and Selling America's Favorite Sport (2010) ISBN 9780807831427
The Art of Football: The Early Game in the Golden Age of Illustration (2017) ISBN 9780803290693

References

^ ^a ^b Ryan, Jack (Spring–Summer 2009). "Book Review: Michael Oriard. The End of Autumn: Reflections on My Life in Football" (PDF). Aethlon. XXV12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-06-12. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
^ "Mike Oriard NFL & AFL Football Statistics". Pro-Football-Reference.com.
^ "Dean's Office". College of Liberal Arts, Oregon State University.