6 ft 5 in (195.6 cm)
A commonly listed height, as Wikipedia gives it, with no date or method, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.
Source: Wikipedia
How tall was Merlin Olsen?
Merlin Olsen is commonly listed at 6 ft 5 in (195.6 cm).
A figure repeated without a date or a measurement. Where this height comes from
Merlin Olsen’s 6 ft 5 in (195.6 cm) is very tall for a US man: more than 95 in 100 US men are shorter.
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Merlin Olsen beside others
Merlin Olsen is one of the taller American football players we have heights for: Ed "Too Tall" Jones (6 ft 9 in) stands 4 in (10.2 cm) taller and Rudy Ruettiger (5 ft 6 in) is 11 in (27.9 cm) shorter. All 95 ranked, tallest first.
- Jared Goff: 6 ft 4 in (193 cm), 1 in (2.5 cm) shorter than Merlin Olsen.
- Eric Dickerson: 6 ft 3 in (191 cm), 2 in (4.6 cm) shorter than Merlin Olsen.
- Joe Namath: 6 ft 2 in (188 cm), 3 in (7.6 cm) shorter than Merlin Olsen.
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Where this height comes from
Photo: Robert Lachman, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
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