Charlie LaPradd
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| Position | Tackle |
| Class | Graduate |
| Major | Physical education |
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| High school | Ketterlinus |
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| Date of birth | August 24, 1927 |
| Place of birth | St. Augustine, Florida |
| Date of death | February 1, 2006 (aged 78) |
| Place of death | Gainesville, Florida |
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Weight | 215 lb (98 kg) |
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Charles W. LaPradd (August 24, 1927 – February 1, 2006) was an American football player during the early 1950s. He played college football for the University of Florida and was recognized as an All-American as a defensive lineman. He later served as the president of St. Johns River Community College in northeast Florida.
LaPradd was born and raised in St. Augustine, Florida, in a family of nine children and modest means. He attended Ketterlinus High School in St. Augustine, where he lettered in football, baseball and basketball, but left school to join the U.S. Army before graduation. After serving in the U.S. Army paratroops, he returned to Ketterlinus to finish his remaining high school diploma requirements.
LaPradd attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Bob Woodruff's Florida Gators football team from 1950 to 1952. He had hitch-hiked to Gainesville for a chance to try out for the Florida Gators football team. He initially played for the Gators as a freshman walk-on in 1949, after convincing the coaches to permit him to try out for the squad, and later earned an athletic scholarship. As was typical of college football in the 1950s, when the rules required athletes to play both offense and defense and permitted only limited substitutions, he played tackle on both the offensive and defensive lines.
He was a third-team All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) selection as a sophomore in 1950, and a second-team All-SEC pick following his junior season in 1951. He was married and had an infant son during his senior year, and was a member of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity (Alpha Epsilon chapter).
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