| Jack Freeman | |
| Birth Date: | 20 January 1922 |
| Number: | 34 |
| Position: | Guard |
| Birth Place: | Mexia, Texas, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Height Ft: | 6 |
| Height In: | 0 |
| Weight Lbs: | 198 |
| College: | Texas |
| Draftyear: | 1943 |
| Draftround: | 27 |
| Draftpick: | 257 |
| Pastteams: | |
| High School: | Mexia (Mexia, Texas) |
| Pfr: | F/FreeJa20 |
Jack Lenard Freeman (January 20, 1922 – July 23, 1990) was an American football guard for the Brooklyn Dodgers of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC). He played college football at Texas.[1]
Freeman played football for the Texas Longhorns from 1938 to 1942.[2] He was inducted into the Texas Longhorn Hall of Honor, which he helped organize, in 1989.[3]
Freeman was drafted in the 27th round of the 1943 NFL draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers, who would later temporarily merge with the Philadelphia Eagles to form the Philadelphia-Pittsburgh Steagles for the 1943 NFL season.
However, Freeman did not play with the Steagles in 1943, as he was completing his Army Air Corps training at Randolph Air Base in San Antonio, Texas.[4] He instead played football for two years at Randolph, and for one year at Fort Worth Army Air Base.[5]
In 1946, Freeman moved to New York to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers of the All-America Football Conference. He played twelve games with the Dodgers, starting three of them.
Freeman and his wife Daisy, who he met while at the University of Texas, eloped in January 1943.
He died on July 23, 1990, at the age of 68.