Gerry Huth

{{Short description|American football player (1933–2011)}}

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

{{Infobox gridiron football person

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1933|7|23|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Floyds Knobs, Indiana, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2011|2|11|1933|7|23|mf=y}}

| death_place = Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.

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| number = 65

| status =

| position1 = Guard

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 0

| weight_lb = 226

| college = Wake Forest

| NFLDraftedYear = 1956

| NFLDraftedRound = 24

| NFLDraftedPick = 285

| NFLDraftedTeam = New York Giants

| playing_years1 = 1956

| playing_team1 = New York Giants

| playing_years2 = 1959–1960

| playing_team2 = Philadelphia Eagles

| playing_years3 = 1961–1963

| playing_team3 = Minnesota Vikings

| career_highlights =

• 2× NFL champion (1956, 1960)

| NFL = HUT498348

| DatabaseFootball = HUTHGER01

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Gerald Bernard Huth (July 23, 1933 – February 11, 2011) was an American football guard who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants, the Philadelphia Eagles and the Minnesota Vikings. He played college football at Wake Forest University and was drafted in the 24th round of the 1956 NFL draft.{{cite web |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HuthJe20.htm |title=Jerry Huth |publisher=Sports Reference |work=pro-football-reference.com |access-date=26 July 2014 }}

Postmortem research diagnosed Huth with chronic traumatic encephalopathy.{{cite news |title=110 N.F.L. Brains |newspaper=New York Times |date=July 25, 2017 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/25/sports/football/nfl-cte.html |access-date=25 July 2017}} He was one of at least 345 NFL players to be diagnosed after death with this disease, which is caused by repeated hits to the head.{{cite news |title=The driving force behind Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) |website=Concussion Legacy Foundation |url=https://concussionfoundation.org/cte-resources/subconcussive-impacts |access-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702123543/https://concussionfoundation.org/cte-resources/subconcussive-impacts |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |author=Ken Belson and Benjamin Mueller |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/sports/football/cte-study-concussions-brain-tackle.html |title=Collective Force of Head Hits, Not Just the Number of Them, Increases Odds of C.T.E. The largest study of chronic traumatic encephalopathy to date found that the cumulative force of head hits absorbed by players in their careers is the best predictor of future brain disease. |work= The New York Times |date=June 20, 2023 |access-date=July 2, 2023 }}