|color playing_years draftedround birth_place playing_team awards article_title fontcolor position |birth_date honors pfr probowls college name draftedyear
# 005000 1968-1977 1 / pick 5 phoenix , arizona green bay packers pro bowl co-mvp -lrb- 1970 -rrb- fred carr
 gold linebacker 1946 8 19 y green bay packers hall of fame carrfr00 3 texas-el paso fred carr 1968
fred carr

fred alton carr -lrb- born august 19 , 1946 in phoenix , arizona -rrb- 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 -lrb- utep -rrb- 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 -lrb- pcaa -rrb- 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 .
