Don Chandler

Chandler as a member of the Green Bay Packers

No. 34

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Personal information

Date of birth:

September 5, 1934

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Date of death:

August 11, 2011 (aged 76)

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Height:

6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)

Weight:

215 lb (98 kg)

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NFL Draft:

1956 / Round: 5 / Pick: 57

Career history

Career highlights and awards

Career NFL statistics

Player stats at PFR

Donald Gene Chandler (September 5, 1934 – August 11, 2011) was an American college and professional football player who was a punter and placekicker in the National Football League (NFL) for twelve seasons in the 1950s and 1960s. Chandler played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he played professionally for the New York Giants and the Green Bay Packers of the NFL.

Chandler was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He attended Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and he played for the Will Rogers Ropers high school football team.

After graduating from high school, Chandler first attended Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and then transferred to the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played halfback, punter and placekicker for coach Bob Woodruff's Florida Gators football team in 1954 and 1955. As a senior in 1955, Chandler led all major college punters with an average kick of 44.3 yards, narrowly beating out Earl Morrall of the Michigan State Spartans. Memorably, Chandler also kicked a 76-yard punt against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in 1955, which remains tied for the second longest punt in Gators history. Woodruff ranked him and Bobby Joe Green as the Gators' best kickers of the 1950s.