Dick Hill (American football)

{{Short description|American gridiron football player (born 1934)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox NFL biography

|name=Dick Hill

|image=Dick Hill 1955.jpg

|caption=Hill from 1955 Michigan team portrait

|birth_date=October 10, 1934

|birth_place=

|position=Guard

|college=Michigan

|teams=*Montreal Alouettes (1957)

|highlights =

• First-team All-Big Ten (1956)

}}

Richard F. Hill (born October 10, 1934) is a former American football lineman. He played professional football for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He also played college football for the University of Michigan from 1954 to 1956 and was selected as the most valuable player on the 1956 Michigan Wolverines football team.

Hill grew up in Gary, Indiana, and enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1953. He played on the all-freshman team in 1953 and was a backup player for the 1954 team.{{cite web|title=All-Time Football Roster Database |publisher=Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan |url=http://141.211.39.65/allroster/fbsearch.htm |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928200732/http://141.211.39.65/allroster/fbsearch.htm |archivedate=September 28, 2007 }} As a junior, Hill started all nine games at left guard for the 1955 Michigan Wolverines football team. The team finished the season with a 7-2 record and was ranked No. 12 and No. 13 in the final AP and UPI polls.{{cite web|title=1956 Football Team|publisher=Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan|url=https://bentley.umich.edu/athdept/football/fbteam/1955fbt.htm}}

As a senior, Hill again started all nine games at left guard for the 1956 Michigan team, and he was selected as that team's most valuable player. The team compiled a 7–2 record and finished with a No. 7 ranking in both the AP and UPI polls.{{cite web|title=1956 Football Team|publisher=Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan|url=https://bentley.umich.edu/athdept/football/fbteam/1956fbt.htm}} After the season was over, Hill was selected to play for the North team in the annual North-South Shrine Game at the Orange Bowl.{{cite news|title=3 Michigan Stars Join North Team|newspaper=The Miami News |date=December 17, 1956|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OccyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AewFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1881,788121&dq=dick-hill+michigan&hl=en}}

In June 1957, Hill signed a contract to play for the Montreal Alouettes in the Canadian Football League.{{cite news|title=Hill to Alouettes|newspaper=The Milwaukee Sentinel (AP story)|date=June 14, 1957|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KWEaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jg8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=7291,1549214&dq=dick-hill+michigan&hl=en}} He played with the Alouettes during the part of the 1957 season.{{cite web|title=All-Time CFL Player Roster|publisher=CFLapedia|url=http://www.cflapedia.com/Database/h.htm}} Hill was cut by the Alouettes in September 1956, as he was preparing to enter the United States Army.{{cite news|title=Stone With Alouettes|newspaper=The Calgary Herald|date=September 4, 1957|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-2pkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Y3wNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5601,271964&dq=dick-hill+alouettes&hl=en}}