Leo Brooks (American football)
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| Position: | Defensive tackle | ||||||||
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| Born: | December 7, 1947 Shidler, Oklahoma, U.S. | ||||||||
| Died: | April 4, 2002 (aged 54) Houston, Texas, U.S. | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 261 lb (118 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Kermit (TX) | ||||||||
| College: | Texas | ||||||||
| NFL draft: | 1970 / round: 2 / pick: 31 | ||||||||
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Leonard Leo Brooks Jr. (December 7, 1947 – April 4, 2002) was a professional American football defensive lineman, who played for the National Football League (NFL)'s St. Louis Cardinals. Following the death of his father-in-law that spring, he gave up his football playing career and returned to Austin to run the family business. He was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in February 2001 and died on April 4, 2002, at the M. D. Anderson Hospital in Houston.
External links
[edit]- Lee Brooks Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
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- 1947 births
- 2002 deaths
- People from Shidler, Oklahoma
- American football defensive linemen
- Texas Longhorns football players
- Houston Oilers players
- St. Louis Cardinals (football) players
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- Deaths from esophageal cancer in the United States
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American football defensive lineman, 1940s birth stubs