John David Crow
Crow in 2012 at Kyle Field
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| Position: | Halfback | ||||||||||
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| Date of birth: | July 8, 1935 | ||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Marion, Louisiana | ||||||||||
| Date of death: | June 17, 2015 (aged 79) | ||||||||||
| Place of death: | Bryan, Texas | ||||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||||
| Weight: | 220 lb (100 kg) | ||||||||||
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| High school: | Springhill (LA) | ||||||||||
| College: | Texas A&M | ||||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1958 / Round: 1 / Pick: 2 | ||||||||||
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| Rushing yards: | 4,963 |
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| Rushing touchdowns: | 38 |
| Receiving yards: | 3,699 |
| Receiving touchdowns: | 35 |
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John David Crow Sr. (July 8, 1935 – June 17, 2015) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He won the Heisman Trophy as a halfback for the Texas A&M Aggies football team of Texas A&M University in 1957. After college, he played professional football in the National Football League (NFL) for the Chicago and St. Louis Cardinals and the San Francisco 49ers between 1958 and 1968.
After his playing career, Crow became an assistant football coach for the Alabama Crimson Tide football team of the University of Alabama, serving under coach Bear Bryant from 1969 to 1971. He moved to the NFL as an assistant with the Cleveland Browns in 1972, and then the San Diego Chargers in 1974. In December 1975, Crow was hired as head football coach and athletic director at Northeast Louisiana University—now the University of Louisiana at Monroe. He coached the football team for five seasons, from 1976 to 1980, compiling a record of 20–34–1. He remained as athletic director until 1981. Crow returned to his alma mater, Texas A&M, in 1983 as an assistant athletic director. He was promoted to athletic director in 1988 and served in that capacity until 1993.
Crow was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1976. A street on the campus of Texas A&M University adjacent to Kyle Field is named after him.
A native of Marion in Union Parish in North Louisiana, Crow was reared to the west in Springhill in northern Webster Parish near the Arkansas state line. He graduated in 1954 from Springhill High School.
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