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{{Short description|American football player (born 1958)}}
{{Infobox NFL player▼
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}}
|name=Ricky Churchman▼
|image=▼
▲| name = Ricky Churchman
|number=33▼
▲| image =
|position=[[Defensive back]]▼
▲| number = 33
|birth_date={{birth date and age|1958|3|14}}▼
▲| position = [[Defensive back]]
|birth_place=[[Pearland, Texas]]▼
▲| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|3|14}}
|height_ft=6▼
▲| birth_place = [[Pearland, Texas]], U.S.
|height_in=1▼
▲| height_ft = 6
|weight_lbs=195▼
▲| height_in = 1
|high_school=[[Pearland High School|Pearland (TX) Pearland]]▼
▲| weight_lbs = 195
|college=[[Texas Longhorns football|Texas]]▼
|draftyear=1980▼
▲| college = [[Texas Longhorns football|Texas]]
|draftround=4▼
▲| draftyear = 1980
|draftpick=84▼
▲| draftround = 4
|pastteams=▼
▲| draftpick = 84
▲| pastteams =
* [[San Francisco 49ers]] ({{NFL Year|1980}}–{{NFL Year|1981}})
| highlights =
* [[List of Super Bowl champions|Super Bowl
* Second-team All-[[Southwest Conference|SWC]] ([[1977 All-Southwest Conference football team|1977]])
* [[1978 Sun Bowl]] champion
| pfr = C/ChurRi20
}}
'''Richard Cecil Churchman''' (born March 14, 1958) is
==College career==
Churchman played for the Texas Longhorns from 1976-1979, the last three as a starter, playing on a team that was ranked #1 for most of the season and which came one-win away from winning the National Championship in 1977. In that season, the Longhorns suffered numerous injuries at quarterback, and when their only healthy QB had to come out for a single play to change his torn uniform, Churchman was sent in for one play to hand the ball off to Johnny "Lam" Jones. Jones ran the ball 70 yards for a touchdown.<ref>{{cite news |title=LETTERS TO THE SPORTS EDITOR |work=Austin American-Statesman |date=5 December 1993}}</ref>
The next season, the team finished #9 after winning the Sun Bowl and the season after that was #12 after losing the Sun Bowl. in 1979 he made the All-Southwest conference team. In 1992, he was named to the Austin American-Statesman Longhorns' All-Centennial Team.<ref>{{cite news |title=A thundering herd all by himself |work=Austin American-Statesman |date=22 November 1992}}</ref>
==Professional career==
Churchman was drafted by the 49ers in the fourth round of the [[1980 NFL draft]]. During the third pre-season game he suffered a knee injury that would later end his career.<ref name="limp"/> He was a rookie starter in his first season, when the 49ers defense featured four rookie starters and in a game against the Patriots, he caught two interceptions as the 49ers recorded a club-record six interceptions in a game.<ref>{{cite news |title=6 interceptions tie 49er club record in 21-17 upset of Patriots |work=The Baltimore Sun |date=1 December 1980}}</ref> He finished the season on the injured reserve list with a pair of injuries to the thigh and shoulder. In the offseason he had the first of 3 knee surgeries.<ref name="limp">{{cite news |title=Churchman limps after his painful, successful career |work=Austin American-Statesman |date=22 November 1993}}</ref>
In 1981, he started the season still recovering from his knee injury, but saw playing time early in the season. In October he underwent another knee surgery and spent the rest of the season on the injured reserve. The San Francisco 49ers won [[Super Bowl XVI]] and he earned a ring, but he did not play in that game or any of the playoff games. He had a third knee surgery in early 1982. At the start of the 1982 season, he was cut by the 49ers.<ref>{{cite news |title=Transactions |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-baltimore-sun-transactions/160214224/|work=The Baltimore Sun |date=1 September 1982}}</ref>
==Later life==
Churchman returned to Texas, earning a Business degree and then went to work for Lockheed where he was a business manager for the company's Tomahawk Cruise Missile Project.<ref name="limp"/> Later he moved to Richland, WA, where he worked as the controller and director of finance and accounting for Lockheed's Mission Support Alliance that provided services to cleanup contractors.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bohls |first1=Kirk |title=There are better ways to fire coach, serve players |work=Austin American-Statesman |date=29 November 2017}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.justsportsstats.com/footballstatsindex.php?player_id=churcric001
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[[Category:American football defensive backs]]
[[Category:Texas Longhorns football players]]
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