Carlos Alvarez ( American football ) Carlos Alvarez Vasquez Rodriguez Ubieta ( born April 1 , 1950 ) is a former American college football player who was an All - American wide receiver for the University of Florida from 1969 to 1971 . Early life . Alvarez was born in Cuba in 1950 , the youngest of Licinio and Isola Alvarez ' s three sons . Alvarez ' s father Licinio had been a successful lawyer in Cuba , but his parents fled to the United States to escape Fidel Castro ' s communist revolution in 1960 , when Alvarez was a 10 - year - old boy . He was raised in Miami , Florida and attended North Miami Senior High School in North Miami , where he was an all - county high school football player for the North Miami Pioneers . Alvarez was the Pioneers ' star halfback who could run and catch , and was touted by the local newspapers as the best back in Dade County — on offense and defense . On at least two occasions , he played all forty - eight minutes of a high school game , playing on both offense and defense . He was highly recruited by multiple universities , including the hometown University of Miami and the University of Florida , but he ultimately chose Florida where his older brothers Arturo and Cesar were already enrolled . Alvarez graduated from North Miami High School in 1968 . College career . After graduating from high school , Alvarez received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville , Florida , and played for coach Ray Graves and coach Doug Dickey ' s Florida Gators football teams from 1969 to 1971 . During Graves ' final season as Florida ' s head coach in 1969 , Alvarez was one of several talented second - year Gators known as the " Super Sophs " who led the team to its then all - time best record of 9 – 1 – 1 . At the close of his sophomore season , he was honored as a first - team All - Southeastern Conference ( SEC ) selection and a consensus first - team All - American , and he caught a nine - yard touchdown pass to provide the Gators ' margin of victory in their 14 – 13 upset of the Tennessee Volunteers in the 1969 Gator Bowl . Alvarez was known for his speed on the football field , and the media dubbed him the " Cuban Comet . " He was also the Gators ' leading receiver in 1970 and 1971 , marking three straight seasons as the Gators ' top offensive weapon . Alvarez was also a first - team Academic All - America n in 1969 and a second - team Academic All - American in 1970 and 1971 , and was chosen for the Academic All - American Hall of Fame in 1991 . Florida Gators receiving records . Although Florida has fielded many prolific offenses including 17 All - American receivers and 2 Heisman Trophy - winning quarterbacks since Carlos Alvarez last played in 1971 , he is still the Gators ' record holder for pass reception s in a single game ( 15 ) , in a single season ( 88 ) , and career receiving yards ( 2 , 563 ) / At the end of his three - year college varsity career , Alvarez held many Gator and SEC pass receiving records , including career , season and game pass receptions and yardage records . His career record of 176 receptions was broken by Andre Caldwell in 2007 , and he ranks second in Gator history ( and third in SEC history ) in receiving yards in a single season ( 1 , 329 yards in 1969 ) and second on the receiving yards charts in a single game ( 237 against Miami in 1969 ) . He ranks ninth among all - time Gators receivers in career touchdown receptions ( 26 ) , seventh in touchdown receptions in a single season ( 18 ) , and is tied for third for most touchdown receptions in a single game ( 3 ) . His 133 yards per - game average in 1969 is still the all - time single - season best among Gators , and has only been exceeded once in the SEC . Alvarez ranks second among Gators receivers with thirteen games for 100 yards or more receiving , one behind career leader Jabar Gaffney . He ranks first among Gators for most 100 - yard receiving games in a season , also tied with Gaffney and Travis McGriff , all with eight . Alvarez achieved this in 1969 when six of those 100 - yard games were achieved consecutively — also a team record he shares with two other Gators . Life after football . Alvarez graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor ' s degree in political science , with honors , in 1972 . The Dallas Cowboys selected him in the fifteenth round ( 390th overall pick ) of the 1972 NFL Draft , but he did not play or sign a contract because of chronic knee injuries . He received an NCAA Post - Graduate Scholarship Award to attend the Duke University School of Law in Durham , North Carolina , and earned his juris doctor ( J . D . ) degree " summa cum laude " in 1975 . After graduation , he worked as a law professor at the Southern Methodist University School of Law in Dallas , Texas , where he was named the Outstanding Law Professor in 1980 . Following in the family legal tradition of his father and older brothers , Alvarez became a practicing attorney . He is a member of The Florida Bar , and has been admitted to practice before the U . S . District Court for the Northern District of Florida , the U . S . Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit , and the U . S . Court of Claims . He has served on the Florida Elections Commission and Second Judicial Circuit Nominating Commission , and was awarded the Jose Marti Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Cuban Community from the U . S . Department of Health , Education and Welfare . Alvarez is an environmental and land use attorney based in Tallahassee , Florida , but his current practice emphasizes mediation , arbitration and alternative dispute resolution . Alvarez was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a " Gator Great " in 1986 , and elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2011 . In one of a series of articles written in 2006 , " The Gainesville Sun " recognized him as No . 7 among the top 100 all - time Gators football players from the first 100 years of the team .