Richard Luman

{{Short description|American football and basketball player (1900–1973)}}

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{{Infobox college football player

|name=Richard Luman

|image=Richard John Luman.png

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|caption=Luman from 1925 "Yale Banner & Pot Pourri"

|currentposition=End

|birth_date={{Birth date|1900|4|26|mf=y}}

|birth_place=Wyoming, US

|death_date={{Death date and age|1973|4|26|1900|4|26|mf=y}}

|death_place=Houston, Texas, US

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|school=Yale Bulldogs

|highschool=

|pastschools=Yale (1924)

|highlights=

• Consensus All-American (1924)
• Third-team All-American (1923)

}}

Richard John Luman (April 26, 1900 – April 26, 1973) was an American football and basketball player. He played college football for Yale University and was a consensus selection at the end position on the 1924 College Football All-America Team.

Luman was raised in Pinedale, Wyoming, and attended preparatory school at Phillips Exeter Academy.1925 Yale Banner & Pot Pourri (yearbook), p. 96. He attended college at Yale University, where he was a member of the football and basketball teams. As an end for the Yale Bulldogs football team, he was a consensus first-team All-American.{{cite web|title=2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections|publisher=National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)|year=2014|access-date=August 16, 2014|page=4|url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2014/Awards.pdf}} In basketball, he played at the center position and was selected as the captain of the 1924–25 Yale basketball team.{{cite news|title=Yale Five Elects Luman: Unanimously Names Veteran Centre Captain for Next Season|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 20, 1924}}

He died in 1973.