Martin Francis Domres is a former American collegiate and professional football

Professional football

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 player. From Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

, he was drafted in the first round of the Common Draft

Common Draft

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 as a quarterback

Quarterback

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 by the American Football League

American Football League

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's San Diego Chargers

San Diego Chargers

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. Domres played in nine professional football seasons from 1969–1977 for four different teams. He is perhaps best known for replacing Johnny Unitas

Johnny Unitas

John Constantine Unitas , known as Johnny Unitas or "Johnny U", and nicknamed "The Golden Arm", was a professional American football player in the 1950s through the 1970s, spending the majority of his career with the Baltimore Colts. He was a record-setting quarterback, and the National Football...

 as the Baltimore Colts

Indianapolis Colts

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 starting quarterback during the 1972 season.

External links

• Marty Domres (statistics & history) – Pro-Football-Reference.com.
• Marty Domres (profile) – Syracuse Hall of Fame.
• Marty Domres (profile) – Columbia University Athletics.
• Klingaman, Mike. "Catching Up With...Former Colt Marty Domres," The Toy Department (The Baltimore Sun sports blog), Tuesday, July 28, 2009.