Jimmy Carr

James Henry Carr {nicknamed "Gummy"} (born March 25, 1933 in Kayford, West Virginia) is a former American football player who played nine seasons in the National Football League for the Chicago Cardinals, the Philadelphia Eagles and the Washington Redskins. Carr also played one season in the Canadian Football League with the Montreal Alouettes in 1958. He was the starting left corner with the Philadelphia Eagles^[1] in 1960 when they won the World Championship beating the Green Bay Packers. He played college football at Morris Harvey (now the University of Charleston) in Charleston, West Virginia. While there he played in three bowl games and was one of three NAIA Hall of Fame inductees in 1962. He also played high school football and baseball at East Bank High School in East Bank, West Virginia.

After retiring as a player, he served 24 seasons as an NFL assistant coach for the Minnesota Vikings, the Chicago Bears, the Philadelphia Eagles, the Detroit Lions, the Buffalo Bills, the San Francisco 49ers, the New England Patriots, and the Atlanta Falcons. He also coached two years in the United States Football League and three years in NFL Europe. Carr was known as a defensive innovator implementing nickel packages, seven defensive backs, eleven man fronts, zone blitz schemes and special zones well before they came into common practice. Coaches who learned under his tutelage include Fritz Shurmur, Jerry Glanville, Floyd Reese, and Bill Belichick.

References

• Harold Rosenthal, The Big Play. p. 102 (New York, NY, Random House, 1965)
• David Halberstam, The Education of a Coach. p. 121 (Hyperion, 2006)

External links

• The Eagles Encyclopedia [1]
• Extremeskins.com [2]
• Bill Belichick Press Coference (2005) [3]