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Carl "Spider" Lockhart

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43: 383:, December 16, 1975. Accessed October 24, 2011. "The 32-year-old resident of Teaneck, N.J., knows he won't be a Giant next season and he was hoping to play his last game in New York the way he had played virtually all the others in his career -- as the starting free safety." 317:. Spider intercepted 41 passes in his career and recovered 16 fumbles during his 145 games played, leading the league in fumble recoveries in 1967. Lockhart also gained 328 yards returning punts and was famous for rarely calling for a fair catch. 402:, October 30, 1993. Accessed October 24, 2011. "When Lockhart, a stockbroker then living in Mahwah, N.J., returned to St. Vincent's with the same complaint in 1981, he was diagnosed as having cancer of the lymph nodes. He was 43 when he died." 613: 441: 598: 434: 573: 583: 291: 608: 427: 593: 275:, their defensive backfield coach, gave Carl the nickname Spider. The popular and talented Spider spent his entire 11-year career with the Giants. He was a 298:
runners with 209 yards, net passing yards only 132, in a 72–41 game, the most points allowed by both teams combined in a single game, Lockhart did get an
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had misdiagnosed swollen lymph nodes when he went to the hospital in 1979 and told a doctor there that he feared that he had cancer. Then living in
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in 1966, despite the Giants being the worst defensive team in points allowed/game in NFL history: 35.8 (14 games, see
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In 1993, his widow won a $ 15.7 million malpractice verdict, after claiming that doctors at
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Spider retired from football in 1975 at the age of 32 and was a resident of
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free safety a second time in 1968, leading the league in defensive
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Players of American football from Bergen County, New Jersey
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Spider Lockhart
refer to caption
Defensive back
Dallas, Texas
Hackensack, New Jersey
North Texas
1965
New York Giants
Pro Bowl
1966
1968
PFR
American football
defensive back
National Football League
New York Giants
Pro Bowler
college football
North Texas State University
drafted
1965 NFL draft
Emlen Tunnell
Pro Bowl
free safety
1966 New York Giants season
Baltimore Colts
List of National Football League records (team)
Washington Redskins
interception
Sonny Jurgensen

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