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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida Hall of Famer Bill Carr, a football All-American, Gators assistant coach and athletic director at the school, has died at age 78. Carr, who passed away late on Feb. 3, was born in Gainesville the son a Baptist minister but raised in Pensacola. He returned to attend UF, where he would become quarterback Steve Spurrier’s center and a star in his own right, earning All-SEC and All-America honors during Spurrier’s 1966 Heisman season. “Wonderful guy, wonderful friend, a super Gator,” Spurrier told the Orlando Sentinel. Spurrier said he visited with Carr during the past …

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