1. Lewis Glen Carpenter was an American football player and coach.
47 Facts About Lew Carpenter
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Lew Carpenter played college football for the University of Arkansas and professionally for ten seasons in the National Football League as a halfback and fullback with the Detroit Lions, Cleveland Browns, and Green Bay Packers.
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Lew Carpenter played on three NFL Championship teams, with Detroit in 1953 and with Green Bay in 1961 and 1962.
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Lew Carpenter coached the Frankfurt Galaxy of the World League of American Football in 1996 and at Southwest Texas State University.
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Lew Carpenter concluded his 47 years of playing and coaching football at the end of the 1996 season.
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Lew Carpenter was born to Verba Glen Lew Carpenter and Edna Earl Pullam in Hayti, Missouri.
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Lew Carpenter was raised in West Memphis, Arkansas, where he attended high school and played six-man football.
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Lew Carpenter played wide receiver, tight end, and served as back-up quarterback during his college years.
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Lew Carpenter graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology.
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Lew Carpenter played baseball after his 1953 senior year in college in the minor Carolina League, as a pitcher, with the Winston-Salem Cardinals.
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In 1953, Lew Carpenter was drafted by the National Football League for the Detroit Lions in the eighth round of the draft, 97th selection.
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Lew Carpenter was the Lions' leading rusher and won his first world championship in 1953.
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In 1954, Lew Carpenter led Detroit with 476 rushing yards and in 1955,543 yards.
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Lew Carpenter helped the Detroit Lions get back into the 1954 NFL Championship game, by winning the NFL Western Conference, before bowing to the 1954 NFL Champion Cleveland Browns.
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Lew Carpenter served honorably during an 18-month tour in Germany.
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In 1957, after returning from Germany, Lew Carpenter was traded to the Cleveland Browns, where he played with Preston Lew Carpenter, his brother.
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In 1959, Coach Vince Lombardi got a key trade by getting Lew Carpenter to come to Green Bay, Wisconsin, and to play for the Packers.
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The next year, the Packers, led by Paul Hornung's 176 points, and assisted by running back Lew Carpenter, won the NFL West title and played in the NFL Championship against the Philadelphia Eagles at Philadelphia.
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The Packers scored 24 second-quarter points assisted by Lew Carpenter, including a championship-record 19 by Paul Hornung, on special loan from the Army, powering the Packers to a 37 to 0 major win over the Giants, their first NFL Championship since 1944.
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Lew Carpenter finished his ten-year career with 2,025 yards and 16 touchdowns on 468 carries.
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In 1964 Lew Carpenter became one of the assistant coaches of the Minnesota Vikings.
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Lew Carpenter served in various coaching positions and teams over the next 30 years.
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Lew Carpenter coached alongside Vince Lombardi then coached for St Louis Cardinals, the Houston Oilers, the Green Bay Packers, the Detroit Lions and the Philadelphia Eagles.
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Lew Carpenter coached several Vikings who were later inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Fran Tarkenton and Carl Eller.
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In late 1966, Lew Carpenter became one of the first coaches on the new NFL Atlanta Falcons franchise, the 23rd professional football club and the 15th NFL franchise.
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Lew Carpenter helped coach the Falcons first victory on November 20,1966, defeating the New York Giants, 27 to 16, at Yankee Stadium.
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Tommy Nobis, first draft pick and coached by Lew Carpenter was voted to the Pro Bowl and named 1966 Rookie of the Year.
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Lew Carpenter participated in many pivotal events for the newly created American football team called the Atlanta Falcons.
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Tommy Nobis was named to his second Pro Bowl and Junior Coffey ended the year with 722 yards to finish as the eighth leading rusher in the league and the Falcons' Most Valuable Player and Lew Carpenter helped coach them both.
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Lew Carpenter worked with Van Brocklin, who he knew as a player and a coach.
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Lew Carpenter helped coach two future Georgia Sports Hall of Fame winners.
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Lew Carpenter was listed as the Packers passing game coordinator and offensive coordinator coach over various seasons.
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Lew Carpenter coached only one season with the Redskins as the receivers and tight ends coach.
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Lew Carpenter's coaching and efforts had an influence on the 1969 season and future game play.
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Lew Carpenter did work with and help coach future Pro Football Hall of Fame winners during his time with the Cardinals.
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In 1973, Lew Carpenter's first coaching season there, the Oilers won only 1 game during the entire season.
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Lew Carpenter was the receivers and tight ends coach brought in by the new Oiler general manager Sid Gillman to work with head coach Bill Peterson and stayed during Gillman's tenure.
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Lew Carpenter worked with and helped coach future Pro Football Hall of Fame winners during his time the Oilers.
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Lew Carpenter was the receivers and tight ends coach for the Green Bay Packers under head coaches Bart Starr and Forrest Gregg from 1975 to 1985.
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Lew Carpenter was the Detroit Lions receivers and tight ends coach for 1987 and 1988.
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Lew Carpenter worked with head coaches Darryl Rogers and Wayne Fontes.
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In 1989, Lew Carpenter had coached at the Southwest Texas State University as a backfield coach under head coach John O'Hara.
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In 1996, Lew Carpenter coached the Frankfurt Galaxy of the World League of American Football.
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Lew Carpenter's last coaching position was with the Cincinnati Marshals of the National Indoor Football League in 2005.
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In 1996, after 47 years of playing and coaching professional NFL football, Lew Carpenter reluctantly retired from the game he loved because of his health.
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Lew Carpenter was inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame in 1988, and the University of Arkansas Sports Hall of Honor in 2000.
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Lew Carpenter is one of at least 345 NFL players to be diagnosed after death with this disease.