Ken Willard

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Kenneth Henderson Willard (born July 14, 1943 in Richmond, Virginia) is a former American football running back/fullback in the National Football League. Willard was drafted with the second pick of the 1965 NFL Draft, by the San Francisco 49ers ahead of future NFL Hall of Famers Dick Butkus and Gale Sayers. He played nine seasons with the San Francisco 49ers and one with the St. Louis Cardinals. He opted to pass on his eleventh season after two consecutive years of knee injuries in St. Louis. He attended the University of North Carolina where he also played baseball and is unofficially credited with the longest home run in Tar Heel history at 525 feet (160 m). Willard was a two-time first round pick in the Major League Baseball draft-first as a 16 letter winning high school athlete by the Boston Red Sox, and then by the Pittsburgh Pirates while at a student athlete at UNC.