# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-cassady
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:34:22.174Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howard-cassady"
name: "Howard Cassady"
slug: "howard-cassady"
description: "Howard Albert \"Hopalong\" Cassady was an American professional football halfback and split end who played in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes, where he won the Heisman Trophy in 1955. Cassady played in the NFL for eight seasons, seven of them for the Detroit Lions, with whom he won the 1957 NFL Championship Game. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1979."
tagline: "American football player (1934–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Howard_Cassady_(1953_Makio).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1934-03-02"
deathDate: "2019-09-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.04
  momentum:             1.382676924839159
  historical:           5.972897333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Cassady"
    title: "Howard Cassady"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A"
    title: "هوارد كاسادي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%89"
    title: "هوارد كاسادى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Cassady"
    title: "Howard Cassady"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassady"
    title: "Hopalong Cassady"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Cassady"
    title: "Howard Cassady"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Cassady"
    title: "Howard Cassady"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5919292"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump