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Sonny Sixkilier, Washington Huskies - Cherokee Nation College StarSonny Sixkiller, an American Indian professional football player, quarterback position, is a Cherokee Nation tribal member. Sixkiller did receive a scholarship to the University of Washington in Seattle. As a sophomore in 1970, he became the starting quarterback for the Washington Huskies and led the NCAA in passing. Sonny Sixkiller was a stand-out athlete and held some fifteen school athletic records. Later in life, Sonny Sixkiller starred opposite of the famous actor Burt Reynolds in "The Longest Yard," a 1974 sports-drama comedy movie about prison inmates who played football against their prison guards.
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