Larry Craig | |
Position: | Running back / End |
Birth Date: | June 27, 1916 |
Birth Place: | Six Mile, South Carolina, U.S. |
Death Place: | Ninety Six, South Carolina, U.S. |
Height Ft: | 6 |
Height In: | 1 |
Weight Lb: | 211 |
College: | South Carolina |
Draftyear: | 1939 |
Draftround: | 6 |
Draftpick: | 49 |
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Pfr: | CraiLa20 |
Larry Gantt Craig (June 27, 1916 – May 30, 1992) was an American football player who played running back and defensive back for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) from to . He was selected in the sixth round of the 1939 NFL draft.[1]
In, Craig made a bit of history as one of the first two players ever to be fined by the NFL's league office when commissioner Elmer Layden in August assessed $25 fines on Craig and New York Giants halfback Hank Soar for fighting.[2] In 1973, he was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame.[3]