Jack Freeman (American football, born 1922)
Jack Lenard Freeman (January 20, 1922 – July 23, 1990) was an American football guard. He was born in Mexia, Texas, and died in Houston, Texas, at age 68. He stood 6 feet tall and weighed 198 pounds. Freeman played high school football in Mexia and college football for the Texas Longhorns from 1938 to 1942, and he helped organize the Texas Longhorn Hall of Honor, which inducted him in 1989.
Freeman was drafted in 1943 by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 27th round (257th overall). That year he did not play for the Steagles because he was finishing Army Air Corps training at Randolph Field in San Antonio. He spent two years at Randolph and one year at Fort Worth Army Air Base.
In 1946 he moved to New York to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the All-America Football Conference. He appeared in 12 games and started 3.
He married Daisy, whom he met at the University of Texas; they eloped in January 1943. Freeman died on July 23, 1990, in Houston, Texas.
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