Chip Bennett


Gene Herbert "Chip" Bennett is an American former football linebacker. He played college football for Abilene Christian University where he was selected as a Little All-American in 1969.

College football

Bennett played college football as a linebacker for Abilene Christian University during the 1967, 1968, and 1969 seasons. He was selected a first-team linebacker on the 1969 Little All-America college football team. He was later selected in 2005 to Abilene Christian's all-time team and in 2013 as one of the Southland Conference's players of the decade for the 1960s.

Later years

Bennett was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals in the third round of the 1970 NFL draft, but he did not appear in any regular-season games for the Bengals. He later worked as a farmer and rancher in Yoakum County, Texas.