Jack Gregory (defensive end)
Appearance
Date of birth | October 3, 1944 |
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Place of birth | Okolona, Mississippi |
Career information | |
Position(s) | Defensive end |
US college | Chattanooga, Delta State |
NFL draft | 1966 / Round: 9 / Pick: 139 |
Career history | |
As player | |
1967–1971 | Cleveland Browns |
1972–1978 | New York Giants |
1979 | Cleveland Browns |
Career highlights and awards | |
Pro Bowls | 2 (1969, 1972) |
Career stats | |
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Earl Jackson "Jack" Gregory, Jr. (born October 3, 1944) is a former American football defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) who played for the Cleveland Browns and the New York Giants in a 13-year career that lasted from 1967 through 1979. He is unofficially credited with 103 quarterback sacks for his career (38 with the Browns and 65 with the Giants).[1] The Browns credit him with 14 sacks for the 1970 NFL season, the second-best total in team history.[2]
Gregory played college football at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Delta State University. He was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 2000. His father, Jack Gregory Sr., played with the Cleveland Rams in 1941.
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- 1944 births
- Living people
- American football defensive ends
- Chattanooga Mocs football players
- Cleveland Browns players
- Delta State Statesmen football players
- New York Giants players
- Eastern Conference Pro Bowl players
- National Conference Pro Bowl players
- People from Chickasaw County, Mississippi
- Players of American football from Mississippi
- American football defensive lineman, 1940s birth stubs