Carl Eller

Carl Eller

No. 81
Position:	Defensive End
Personal information
Date of birth:	(1942-01-25) January 25, 1942 (age 75)
Place of birth:	Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Height:	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Weight:	247 lb (112 kg)
Career information
High school:	Winston-Salem (NC) Atkins
College:	Minnesota
NFL Draft:	1964 / Round: 1 / Pick: 6
Career history
Minnesota Vikings (1964–1978) Seattle Seahawks (1979)
Career highlights and awards
NFL champion (1969) 6× Pro Bowl (1968–1971, 1973, 1974) 5× First-team All-Pro (1968–1971, 1973) 2× Second-team All-Pro (1967, 1972) NFL Defensive Player of the Year (1971) Minnesota Vikings Ring of Honor NFL 1970s All-Decade Team Consensus All-American (1963)
Career NFL statistics
Games: 225 Safeties: 1 Player stats at NFL.com
Pro Football Hall of Fame
College Football Hall of Fame

Games:	225
Safeties:	1
Player stats at NFL.com

Carl Eller (born January 25, 1942) is a former professional American football player in the National Football League (NFL) who played from 1964 through 1979. He was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and attended the University of Minnesota. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2004.

As a sophomore, Eller helped lead the Gophers to a Rose Bowl victory. While Eller shared the starting position as a sophomore he became a full-time, two-way player as a junior and senior and was voted All-America both years. During his time in college the Gophers were National Champions as well as Big Ten champions. As a senior (1963) Eller was the runner-up for the Outland Trophy. Following each football season, the Carl Eller Award is given to the University of Minnesota's Defensive Player of the Year. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2006.

At the University of Minnesota Eller joined Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, via the Mu Chapter while at the University of Minnesota. In the 1990s, he graduated from Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota with a bachelor's degree in human services.

In 1964 Eller was drafted in the first round of the NFL draft by the Minnesota Vikings and also drafted in the first round of the American Football League Draft by the Buffalo Bills, who could not sign him. As the left defensive end in the Vikings front four, he was a major factor in the unit known as the "Purple People Eaters".

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