Born in Hawaii to Olivia Pualani Alapa, a full-blooded native Hawaiian and Raymond F. Schoenke, of German descent from Minnesota, who was stationed with the U.S. Army 3rd Engineering Corp, Schofield Barracks in Hawaii where he was an All-Star athlete on their baseball and basketball teams in the late 1920s and 1930s.
He also played at fullback, guard, tackle, center and linebacker, receiving All-Southwest conference honors in both his junior and senior years.
[1] In 1966, after being out of football for a year recovering from his injury, he signed as a free agent with the Green Bay Packers.
On July 29, he was traded to the Cleveland Browns in exchange for an undisclosed draft choice (not exercised).
He was signed by the Washington Redskins to their taxi squad and was promoted to the active roster on October 1.
[5] He was nicknamed "The Mummy" for the amount of sports tape he would use, eventually neededing to go through 5 surgeries and 2 knee replacements.