Robert Alexander "Bob" Ravensberg (October 20, 1925 – February 12, 2007) was an American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

  player. Ravensberg was born in Bellevue, Kentucky

Bellevue, Kentucky

Bellevue is a city in Campbell County, Kentucky, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 5,955 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Bellevue is located in the extreme northern portion of Kentucky, directly across the Ohio River from the Mount Adams neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio...

, where his family operated a diner. He was a two-time Kentucky high school pole vault

Pole vault

Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...

 champion who set a state record in the event. He enrolled at the University of Indiana where he won varsity letter

Varsity letter

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s in football in 1943, 1944, 1945 and 1947. He was a starter on Indiana's 1945 Big Ten championship team, the school's only undefeated and outright Big Ten championship team. In 1945, he was selected as a consensus first-team All-American football player at the end position. After graduating from Indiana, Ravensberg played two seasons of professional football in the National Football League

National Football League

The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

 for the Chicago Cardinals from 1948–49. He was an assistant football coach at the University of Indiana from 1950–51.