Bill Gregory
| No. 77 | |||||||||||
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| Position: | Defensive tackle / Defensive end | ||||||||||
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| Date of birth: | December 14, 1949 | ||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Galveston, Texas | ||||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | ||||||||||
| Weight: | 255 lb (116 kg) | ||||||||||
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| High school: | Lincoln (TX) La Marque | ||||||||||
| College: | Wisconsin | ||||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1971 / Round: 3 / Pick: 77 | ||||||||||
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| Interceptions: | 2 |
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| Fumble recoveries: | 6 |
| Games started: | 63 |
| Games played: | 142 |
| Player stats at NFL.com | |
William Penn Gregory, Jr. (born December 14, 1949) is a former American football defensive lineman in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys and the Seattle Seahawks. He played college football at the University of Wisconsin.
Gregory attended Lincoln High School where he practiced football, basketball and track. He enrolled at the University of Wisconsin, where he was named the starter at defensive tackle as a sophomore and finished second on the team in tackles with 75 (48 solo).
In 1969, he led the team in tackles with 102 (58 solo), receiving honorable mention All-Big Ten and second team Big Ten All-Academic honors. In 1970, he was moved to defensive end and received All-Big Ten and third-team All-American honors.
In 2007, he was inducted into the University of Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame.
Gregory was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the third round (77th overall pick) of the 1971 NFL Draft. He served mainly as a backup defensive tackle and defensive end, to some of the Cowboys greatest defensive players: Bob Lilly, Jethro Pugh, George Andrie, Larry Cole, Randy White, Harvey Martin and Ed "Too Tall" Jones.
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