Tom Keating (American football)

Tom Keating

No. 74
Position:	Defensive tackle
Personal information
Date of birth:	(1942-09-02)September 2, 1942
Place of birth:	Chicago
Date of death:	August 31, 2012(2012-08-31) (aged 69)
Place of death:	Denver, Colorado
Career information
College:	Michigan
NFL Draft:	1964 / Round: 4 / Pick: 53
AFL draft:	1964 / Round: 5 / Pick: 34
Career history
Buffalo Bills (1964–1965) Oakland Raiders (1966–1967, 1969) Oakland Raiders (1970–1972) Pittsburgh Steelers (1973) Kansas City Chiefs (1974) Oakland Raiders (1975) Pittsburgh Steelers (1976–1977) Oakland Raiders (1978–1979) Pittsburgh Steelers (1980–1983) Los Angeles Raiders (1984)
Career highlights and awards
3x AFL champion (1964, 1965, 1967) 2x AFL All-Star (1966, 1967) AFL All-Time 2nd Team
Career NFL statistics
Games played: 114 Games started: 25 Fumble recoveries: 5

Games played:	114
Games started:	25
Fumble recoveries:	5

For the famous art forger of the same name, see Tom Keating. For the priest and author of the same name see Thomas Keating.

Thomas Arthur Keating (September 2, 1942 – August 31, 2012) was an American football player who played at the defensive tackle position. He played college football for the University of Michigan from 1961 to 1963. He also played 12 seasons of professional football in the American and National Football Leagues from 1964 to 1975. He was an AFL All-Star in 1966 and 1967, a key to the 1967 Oakland Raiders' defensive line that led the team to a 13-1 record and the 1967 AFL Championship, and was considered "the premier tackle in the old American Football League". He was known for his use of a distinctive four-point stance in which he lined up with both hands on the ground.

Keating was born in Chicago in 1942. He attended St. Mel High School in Chicago.

Keating enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1960 and played college football at the tackle position on head coach Bump Elliott's Michigan Wolverines football teams from 1961 to 1963. As a junior, he started eight of nine games at left tackle for the 1962 Michigan Wolverines football team that compiled a 2-7 record and finished in last place in the Big Ten Conference. As a senior, he started all nine games at left tackle and was selected as the Most Valuable Player on the 1963 Michigan Wolverines football team that compiled a 3-4-2 record and finished in fifth place in the Big Ten Conference.

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