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  One of the truly gifted football passers in UND history, Colehour, came to UND from Minneapolis. He rewrote the Sioux passing record books. Several of his passing records remain on the books today, including completions, yards, touchdowns and just about every category you can name. Two other important records he set were 42 career touchdown passes and 23 season TD passes. After his junior and senior season he was named to the All-NCC team. He also served as tri-captain, and was named the conference most valuable offensive back in both 1965 and 1966, In both his junior and senior seasons he was named UND's most valuable back, and All American honorable mention. Colehour was the seventh draft choice of the Atlanta Falcons NFL team and played there in 1967 and 1968, then went on to play for the Edmonton Eskimos. After retiring he was an assistant football coach in 1970-71.