Naval Academy star, coach dies

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    Henry Richard "Dick" Duden Jr., a member of the College Football Hall of Fame and a graduate of Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., died Sunday. He was 88.

    Duden, who played and later coached at the Naval Academy, was drafted by the New York Giants and played professionally for a single season before returning to military duties.

    He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2001.

    The Pottstown, Penn., native grew up in Englewood, N.J., before attending Phillips Academy, where he was a three-sport varsity athlete and is widely regarded as the best football player in the school's long history. He was inducted into the Phillips Academy athletics Hall of Fame in 2008, along with former U.S. president George H.W. Bush.

    Duden began his coaching career in 1951 at the Naval Academy, serving as the head coach of the plebe squad (the school's team composed of freshmen). He would continue to serve in that role until 1954, at which point he spent six seasons on the staff of varsity coach Eddie Erdelatz.

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