Researching Dick Sprague
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The name Dick means "form of RICHARD - strong like a ruler, powerful" and is of Teutonic origin.
Records of Dick Sprague on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Dick Sprague and the Sprague Genealogy
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Dick Sprague
Richard Severn Sprague (November 13, 1931 – May 28, 2008) was an American football player. He played college football for the Washington Huskies football team and, as a sophomore, was selected by the Football Writers Association of America as a first-team defensive player on their 1950 College Football All-America Team. Sprague passed on an opportunity to play in the National Football League to study law at Harvard Law School. At Harvard, he also coached football. He worked as an attorney at the Bogle and Gates law firm for 40 years and at Kemper Development Co. in Bellevue, Washington, for several years after that. He died of prostate cancer in 2008 at age 77 at his home in Medina, Washington.
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Other names that sound a bit like Sprague
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