Bill Carr (American football)

Bill Carr

Biographical details
Born	(1945-11-29)November 29, 1945 Gainesville, Florida, U.S.
Died	February 3, 2024(2024-02-03) (aged 78)
Alma mater	University of Florida
Playing career
1964–1966	Florida
Position(s)	Center
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1972–1974	Florida (assistant)
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1979–1986	Florida
1993–1997	Houston
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
First-team All-American (1966) First-team All-SEC (1966) University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame

William Curtis Carr III (November 29, 1945 – February 3, 2024) was an American college football player, coach, and athletics administrator. Carr was born in Gainesville, Florida, raised in Pensacola, Florida, and attended the University of Florida, where he was an All-American center for the Florida Gators football team in the mid-1960s. He was selected in the 4th round of the 1967 NFL/AFL Draft but first had to serve two years in the United States Army, after which he did not make a regular season NFL roster. Carr returned to UF as graduate assistant and assistant coach under head coach Doug Dickey in 1972 and, after earning his master's degree, joined the school's athletic administration in 1975. He became Florida's athletic director in 1979 at the age of 33, making him the youngest athletic director at a major university at the time. As head of UF's Athletic Association, Carr oversaw the construction of the Stephen C. O'Connell Center and a major addition to Florida Field while also presiding over major NCAA rules violations in the football program.

Carr resigned in 1986 and went into private business for several years before serving as the athletic director at the University of Houston from 1993 until 1997, when he retired and established a college sports consulting firm.^[1][2] Carr died on February 3, 2024, at the age of 78.^[3]