No. 50, 58, 54 | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Position: | Linebacker | ||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||
Born: | Cle Elum, Washington, U.S. | September 7, 1939||||||||||||
Died: | December 14, 2016 Issaquah, Washington, U.S. | (aged 77)||||||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||||||
Weight: | 225 lb (102 kg) | ||||||||||||
Career information | |||||||||||||
High school: | Cle Elum | ||||||||||||
College: | Washington | ||||||||||||
NFL draft: | 1961 / round: 17 / pick: 228 | ||||||||||||
AFL draft: | 1961 / round: 28 / pick: 224 | ||||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||||
Career highlights and awards | |||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||
Career NFL statistics | |||||||||||||
|
Charles Richard Allen (September 7, 1939 – December 14, 2016) was an American professional football player who was a linebacker in the American Football League (AFL) with the San Diego Chargers, and later the National Football League (NFL) with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles. He played in four AFL Championship games (1961, 1963–1965), and was a member of the Chargers' 1963 AFL Championship team. Allen was an All-AFL player in 1962, and an AFL All-Star in 1963 and 1964. He played college football for the Washington Huskies.