Template:Infobox college football player/doc

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.

3. This infobox template is not intended to be used for articles about current and former Canadian Football League (CFL) players, coaches and administrators. If a former college football player played in one or more regular season games in the CFL, the article about such player should usually employ Template:Infobox CFL biography. If a former college football player was a member of an CFL preseason or practice squad, but never played in a regular season CFL game, then the article about him should generally use this template.

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 (1970–1973)

Use as a child template
The embed parameter is used when embedding this infobox into another.

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