Carl "Spider" Lockhart, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American football player
Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1943
Place of Birth: Dallas, Texas, United States
Date of Death: 09-Jul-1986
Profession: American football player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Carl "Spider" Lockhart
- Carl Ford "Spider" Lockhart (April 6, 1943 – July 9, 1986) was an American football defensive back in the National Football League for the New York Giants.
- He was a two-time Pro Bowler.
- Lockhart played college football at North Texas State University and was drafted in the thirteenth round of the 1965 NFL Draft.
- On arriving at Giants training camp, Emlen Tunnell, their defensive backfield coach, gave Carl the nickname Spider.
- The popular and talented Spider spent his entire 11-year career with the Giants.
- He was a Pro Bowl free safety in 1966, despite the Giants being the worst defensive team in points allowed/game in NFL history: 35.8 (14 games, see 1966 New York Giants season), the 1981 Baltimore Colts allowing 533 points in 16 games: 33.3; see List of National Football League records (team).
- In particular, their run defense was shredded by Washington Redskins runners with 209 yards, net passing yards only 132, in a 72-41 game, the most points allowed by both teams combined in a single game, Lockhart did get an interception against Sonny Jurgensen in the game.
- He was a Pro Bowl free safety a second time in 1968, leading the league in defensive touchdowns.
- Spider intercepted 41 passes in his career and recovered 16 fumbles during his 145 games played.
- Lockhart also returned 328 punts and was famous for rarely calling for a fair catch. Spider retired from football in 1975 at the age of 32 and was a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey.
- On July 9, 1986, at the age of 43, Spider died of lymphoma.
- In his honor, a "Spider patch" was worn by the Giants throughout their Super Bowl XXI-winning 1986 season. In 1993, his widow won a $15.7 million malpractice verdict, after claiming that doctors at St.
- Vincent's Hospital had misdiagnosed swollen lymph nodes when he went to the hospital in 1979 and told a doctor there that he feared that he had cancer.
- Then living in Mahwah, New Jersey, Lockhart was not correctly diagnosed until he returned to see a doctor two years after his initial complaint.
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