Tom Feamster

{{Short description|American football player (1930–2020)}}

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

{{Infobox NFL biography

|name=Tom Feamster

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|number=79

|position=Defensive end

|height_ft = 6

|height_in = 7

|weight_lbs = 260

|birth_date={{birth date|1930|10|23}}

|birth_place=Warwick, Virginia, U.S.

|death_date= {{death date and age|2020|6|9|1930|10|23}}

|death_place=Hazard, Kentucky, U.S.

|high_school=Warwick
(Newport News, Virginia)

|college=William & Mary / Florida State

|draftyear=1955

|draftround=4

|draftpick=40
(by the Los Angeles Rams){{cite web|url=http://databasefootball.com/teams/teamyear.htm?tm=LAM&lg=nfl&yr=1955 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100104211722/http://databasefootball.com/teams/teamyear.htm?tm=LAM&lg=nfl&yr=1955 |title=1955 Los Angeles Rams |website=databaseFootball.com |archive-date=January 4, 2010 |url-status=usurped |access-date=July 17, 2020}}

|teams=

• Baltimore Colts (1956)

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|statlabel1=Games played

|statvalue1=12

|pfr=FeamTo20.htm

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Thomas Otey Feamster (October 23, 1930 – June 9, 2020{{cite web |title=Thomas Otey Feamster: October 23, 1930 - June 9, 2020 |url=https://www.maggardfuneralhomes.com/obituaries/Thomas--Otey-Feamster?obId=15009171 |website=Maggard Funeral Homes |access-date=7 July 2021}}) was a professional American football player for the National Football League (NFL)'s Baltimore Colts. He played in twelve games in the 1956 season after his collegiate career at William & Mary and then Florida State.[https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/F/FeamTo20.htm Tom Feamster] @ pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved September 19, 2013.

In 1969, Feamster entered a seminary and was later ordained an Episcopal priest. In 1979, he served as a minister to John Spenkelink prior to Spenkelink's execution.Von Drehle, David. Among the Lowest of the Dead: Inside Death Row. New York: Fawcett Crest (imprint of Ballantine Books), 1996. {{ISBN|0449225232}} p. 77