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ASU's 50 Best Professional Athletes: No. 10: NFL Hall-of-Famer Curley Culp

It's not often an athlete enjoys the same, if not more, magnitude of success in the professional ranks as in his or her collegiate days.

This was the case for Curley Culp, who followed up an All-American stint with the Arizona State Sun Devils with a Hall-of-Fame career in the NFL, being regarded as one of the most dominant defensive tackles in the sport's history.

Starring under renowned coach Frank Kush, Culp emerged as a First-Team All-WAC and All-American defensive lineman from 1965-67. Culp's time in Tempe, however, is best known for being a two-sport star as he won the NCAA wrestling championship in the heavyweight division in 1967 and earned a trip to the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.