Template:Infobox college football player/doc

Joe Smith
	Joe Smith playing for State College
Minnesota Golden Gophers – No. 12
Position	Quarterback
Class	Redshirt Senior
Major	American history
Personal information
Born:	September 30, 1993 (age 31); Marion, Ohio
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight	209 lb (95 kg)
Career history
College	Miami (OH) (2012); Minnesota (2013–present);
Bowl games	Rose Bowl (2014); Capital One Bowl (2013);
High school	Pleasant (Marion, Ohio)
Career highlights and awards
	2× First-team All-American (2013, 2014); Graham–George Offensive Player of the Year (2014); 3× First-team All-Big Ten (2012–2014);
	College Football Hall of Fame (2015)
	Stats at ESPN; Stats at CBS Sports; Stats at Sports Illustrated; Stats at Yahoo Sports; Stats at Rivals;

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Intended uses

This infobox template is intended to be used in articles about current and former players of American college football. However, please note the following exceptions and caveats to the foregoing general guideline for use:

1. This infobox template is not intended to be used for articles about former college football players who are also college football coaches. Articles about American college football coaches use Template:Infobox college coach, the uniform template for college coaches in all American college sports.

2. This infobox template is not intended to be used for articles about current and former National Football League (NFL) players, coaches and administrators, nor for players, coaches and administrators in the several NFL predecessor leagues, including the American Professional Football Association (APFA, 1920–1921), All-America Football Conference (AAFC, 1946–1949), American Football League (AFL, 1960–1969). This template is also not used for Arena Football League players, coaches and administrators. Articles about all of the foregoing use Template:Infobox NFL biography. If a former college football player played in one or more regular season games in the NFL, APFA, AAFC, AFL or Arena Football League, the article about such player should usually employ Template:Infobox NFL biography. If a former college football player was a member of an NFL preseason or practice squad, but never played in a regular season NFL game, then the article about him should generally use this template.

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Blank template

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| CFBHOF_id       =
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Parameters

birth_date – Use {{Birth date and age}} (or {{Birth date}} if dead)
death_date – Use {{Death date and age}} (or {{Death date}} if birth date is unknown)
alt – Alt text for the image, for visually impaired readers; see WP:ALT
weight_lb – Use a raw number, will be automatically converted to kilograms (kg)
height_ft, height_in – Use raw numbers, will be automatically converted to meters (m)
school – use only for current players; do not wikilink; use of this field will cause the infobox to be framed in the team's colors
- Example: Alabama Crimson Tide (without any brackets)
pastschools – list former college teams of current players, or all college teams of former players; wikilinks and years encouraged
- Example: [[USC Trojans football|USC]] (1970–1973)

Use as a child template

The embed parameter is used when embedding this infobox into another.

This infobox may be used to create a genre-specific section within {{Infobox person}} (or similar biographical infobox templates) for cases where a person may be notable in more than one field; a generic example is shown below. For guidance on usage, see Wikipedia:Infobox modules. Also see the Template:Infobox documentation which explains embedding and subboxes.

{{Infobox person
 | name = 
 | image = 
 | caption = 
 | birth_date = 
 | birth_place = 
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 | module = 
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Embedding other templates

The module parameter is used for embedding other templates into this infobox (see Wikipedia:Infobox modules).

{{Infobox college football player
| name = 
| <!-- etc. -->
| module = 
  {{Infobox military person | embed=yes
  | <!-- etc. -->
  }}
}}

Example

{{Infobox college football player
| name            = Joe Smith
| image           = Noflag2.svg
| image_size      = frameless
| alt             = 
| caption         = Joe Smith playing for State College
| school          = Minnesota Golden Gophers
| currentnumber   = 12
| currentposition = [[Quarterback]]
| class           = [[Senior (education)|Senior]]
| major           = American history
| pastschools     = 
* [[Miami RedHawks football|Miami (OH)]] (2012)
* [[Minnesota Golden Gophers football|Minnesota]] (2013–present)
| bowlgames       = 
* [[Rose Bowl Game|Rose Bowl]] ([[2014 Rose Bowl|2014]])
* [[Capital One Bowl]] ([[2013 Capital One Bowl|2013]])
| highschool      = [[Pleasant High School (Marion, Ohio)|Pleasant]]
| birth_date      = {{Birth date and age|1993|9|30|mf=y}}
| birth_place     = [[Marion, Ohio]]
| death_date      = 
| death_place     = 
| height_ft       = 5
| height_in       = 11
| weight_lb       = 209
| highlights      = 
* 2× First-team [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] ([[2013 College Football All-America Team|2013]], [[2014 College Football All-America Team|2014]])
* [[Big Ten Conference football individual awards#Graham–George Offensive Player of the Year|Graham–George Offensive Player of the Year]] (2014)
* 3× First-team [[List of All-Big Ten Conference football teams|All-Big Ten]] ([[2012 All-Big Ten Conference football team|2012]]–[[2014 All-Big Ten Conference football team|2014]])
| CFBHOF_year     = 2015
| espn            = 0
| cbs             = 1
| si              = 2
| yahoo           = 3
| rivals          = 4
}}

Microformat

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Sub-templates

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Classes

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birthplace
category
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deathdate
deathplace
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family-name
fn (required)
given-name
honorific-prefix
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n
nickname
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org
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url
vcard

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