Chris Gilbert (American football)

In his career, he returned 20 kickoffs, averaging 22.7 yards on each and scored 28 touchdowns in 29 games.

He was co-captain of the 1968 Longhorn team that shared the SWC championship and finished 8th in Heisman voting that year.

He instead chose to play in the Continental Football League in 1969 with the Fort Worth Braves because he still needed 12 hours of classwork to graduate and the Fort Worth location would make it easier to finish school at Texas (and by staying in school he could avoid being drafted and sent to Vietnam).

With friend and Texas teammate Corby Robertson, a '67 All-America linebacker, he founded Camp Olympia in Trinity, TX and found success with the Gilbert Investment Company in Houston.

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