Robert William Jencks was a former American football

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 kicker

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 and end in the National Football League

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 for the Chicago Bears

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 and the Washington Redskins

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. He played college football

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 at Miami University

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 and was drafted

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 in the second round of the 1963 NFL Draft

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. Jencks was also selected in the fifth round of the 1963 AFL Draft

1963 American Football League Draft

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 by the Buffalo Bills

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.

His rookie season was 1963, when the Bears defeated the New York Giants

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 for the team's first NFL title since 1946.

He was born in Columbus

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, Ohio

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 and died in Manchester, New Hampshire

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, where he had lived for many years.