Nick Rassas
{{Short description|American football player (born 1944)}}
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| number = 27
| position = Safety
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1944|1|13}}
| birth_place = Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
| high_school = Wilmette (IL) Loyola
| college = Notre Dame
| afldraftyear = 1966
| afldraftround = 2
| afldraftpick = 16
| draftyear = 1966
| draftround = 2
| draftpick = 17
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| pastteams =
- Atlanta Falcons ({{NFL Year|1966|1968}})
| highlights =
- National champion (1964)
- Consensus All-American (1965)
| statlabel1 = Games played - started
| statvalue1 = 27 - 0
| statlabel2 = Interceptions
| statvalue2 = 1
| statlabel3 = Fumble recoveries
| statvalue3 = 2
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Nicholas Charles Rassas (born January 13, 1944) is an American former professional football player for the Atlanta Falcons from 1966 to 1968. He is also notable for playing college football at Notre Dame where he played for Ara Parseghian from 1963 to 1965. Rassas was a main Underdog in a Jim Dent book Resurrection: The Miracle Season That Saved Notre Dame, which was based on the 1964 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team.
==See also==
{{1964 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football navbox}}
{{1965 NCAA Division I FBS College Football Consensus All-Americans}}
{{San Diego Chargers 1966 draft navbox}}
{{Atlanta Falcons 1966 draft navbox}}
{{1966 Atlanta Falcons}}
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Category:All-American college football players
Category:American football safeties
Category:Atlanta Falcons players
Category:Loyola Academy alumni
Category:Notre Dame Fighting Irish football players
Category:Players of American football from Baltimore
Category:20th-century American sportsmen
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