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Tony Tatum

  • Class
    2013
  • Induction
    2017
  • Sport(s)
    Football

Tatum was a three-year letterwinner on the Gallaudet football team (2010-12). He was named the 2012 Eastern Collegiate Football Conference (ECFC) Defensive and Special Teams Player of the Year, the first and only player to sweep both awards in the same season. That same year, he was named to the D3football.com All-American Fourth Team on defense. The Alabama native, was a three-time All-ECFC defensive selection (2010, '11, '12), with the last year being picked to the first team. Tatum was also named an All-ECFC first team return specialist (2012). During his first season on the football team he was involved in a viral interception play that received over 1 million views in two days. After graduating from Gallaudet, Tatum played two seasons in the Arena Football League. He also played four years on the GU men's basketball team and scored 1,237 career points.

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