Joe likes to say that at one point in his career, he was 6-3, but he had tackled so many fullbacks that it drove his neck into his shoulders and now he is 6-foot,” said the late Lions owner William Clay Ford, Schmidt’s presenter at his Hall of Fame induction in 1973.
Joe Schmidt dies at 92; Hall of Famer helped Detroit Lions win 2 NFL titles
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