Murry Bowden

{{Short description|American football player (born 1949)}}

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{{BLP sources|date=September 2018}}

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|birth_place=Colorado City, Texas, U.S.

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|Position=LB

|College=Dartmouth College

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• First-team All-American (1970)
• First-team All-East (1970)
• Second-team All-East (1969)

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Murry Bowden (born December 11, 1949) is former American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2003. He earned the National Football Foundation Outstanding Contribution to Amateur Football Award in 2018 for his contributions to the construction and management of the Atlanta College Football Hall of Fame.

Bowden graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College with a degree in psychology, and from the University of Texas School of Law. After graduating from Texas, he went on to found the Hanover Company, a real estate investment group.{{cite web

| url = https://footballfoundation.org/news/2018/8/27/murry-bowden-named-2018-nff-outstanding-contribution-to-amateur-football-award-recipient.aspx

| title = Murry Bowden Named 2018 NFF Outstanding Contribution to Amateur Football Award Recipient

| date = August 28, 2018

| publisher = National Football Foundation

| access-date = November 6, 2018

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