Henry M. Tingelhoff

(1940- ) born at Lexington, lived in Lincoln. Professional football player, while a center for the Minnesota Vikings for 17 seasons from 1962 to 1978, he set a National Football League record for an offensive lineman with 240 consecutive games, both regular and playoff, a record that still stands for offensive linemen; performed in four Super Bowls, and his Jersey, retired in 2001, was only the fifth retired in Vikings history. Consult Barry Stainback, How The Pros Play Football (Random House, 1970) 109-117 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald, December 4, 1977, p. C-2 and Omaha World Herald, August 24, 1978, p. 5 and Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Supplement for 1989-92 (Greenwood Press, 1992) 490-491 and Omaha World Herald, September 2, 2005, pp. C-1, C-2.

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