Fred Alton Carr is a former American football player who played linebacker for the Green Bay Packers from 1968-77. Fred "Freddy" Carr attended Phoenix Union High School where he competed in basketball, and representing P.U.H.S. as a discus thrower and in the shot put. Fred was in the top ten discus throwers in the USA in his senior year. He played for Phoenix College before transferring to the University of Texas at El Paso in 1965, where he was called "Probably the best overall linebacker in school history." Fred was inducted into the UTEP Athletics Hall of Fame, September 23, 2005, and would later also be elected to the Phoenix College Hall of Fame in their inaugural class of 2007. Carr was drafted in the first round of the 1968 NFL Draft by the Green Bay Packers. Carr's professional career spanned 9 seasons, all with the Packers. He retired from pro football in 1977. 

August 19th, 1946 in Phoenix  /  Died:   Feb 19th, 2018 - dementia and prostrate cancer