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| Position: | Linebacker | ||||||||
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| Born: | August 19, 1946 Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. | ||||||||
| Died: | February 19, 2018 (aged 71) Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 238 lb (108 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Phoenix (AZ) Union | ||||||||
| College: | UTEP | ||||||||
| NFL draft: | 1968 / round: 1 / pick: 5 | ||||||||
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Freddie Alton Carr (August 19, 1946 – February 19, 2018) was an American professional football player who played linebacker for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1968 to 1977.[1]
Carr attended Phoenix Union High School, where he also competed in basketball and track, representing P.U.H.S. as a discus thrower and in the shot put. He was in the top ten discus throwers in the U.S. in his senior year.[2] He played for Phoenix College before transferring to the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) in 1965, where he was called "Probably the best overall linebacker in school history."[3] Fred was inducted into the UTEP Athletics Hall of Fame, September 23, 2005, and would later also be elected to the Phoenix College (PCAA) Hall of Fame in their inaugural class of 2007.[4]