Bill Cregar
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| Positions | Guard, linebacker | ||||||||
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| Born | May 2, 1925 Newark, New Jersey, U.S. | ||||||||
| Died | December 26, 2019 (aged 94) Glassboro, New Jersey, U.S. | ||||||||
| Listed height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||||||||
| Listed weight | 195 lb (88 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school | Frank H. Morrell (Irvington, New Jersey) | ||||||||
| College | Holy Cross | ||||||||
| NFL draft | 1947: 18th round, 158th overall pick | ||||||||
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William Osmund Cregar (May 2, 1925 – December 28, 2019) was an American professional football guard who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers.[1] He played college football at the College of the Holy Cross, having previously attended Frank H. Morrell High School.[2] He is a member of the College of the Holy Cross Athletic Hall of Fame.[3][4]
Cregar later joined the FBI in the early 1950s and worked as a CIA–FBI liaison agent and then chief of the FBI counter-intelligence agency.[5][6] A colleague, Jay Aldhizer described Cregar as having a "high profile in the intelligence community...a flamboyant personality, with a desk-pounding, get what I want type of relationship with CIA".[5] He retired from the FBI as the assistant director of Foreign Intelligence and Counter Espionage in 1980.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Bill Cregar Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft, College". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved August 31, 2026.
- 1 2 "William O. Cregar". usobit.com. January 4, 2020. Retrieved January 6, 2020.[dead link]
- ↑ "William O. Cregar". Archived from the original on April 16, 2015. Retrieved April 11, 2015.
- ↑ "Cregar Lost to Steelers For 2 Weeks". The Pittsburgh Press. August 14, 1947. p. 34 – via news.google.com/newspapers.
- 1 2 Riebling, Mark (2010). Wedge: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11: How the Secret War between the FBI and CIA Has Endangered National Security. Simon and Schuster. pp. 317–318. ISBN 978-1-4516-0385-9.
- ↑ "Soviet Held Ahead in American Spying". The New York Times. March 25, 1975. p. 4.
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