Leo Brooks
Born: | Shidler, Oklahoma | December 7, 1947
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Died: | April 4, 2002 Houston, Texas | (aged 54)
Career information | |
Position(s) | Defensive lineman |
College | Texas |
NFL draft | 1970 / Round: 2 / Pick: 31 |
Career history | |
As player | |
1970–1972 | Houston Oilers |
1973–1976 | St. Louis Cardinals |
Leonard Leo Brooks, Jr. (December 7, 1947 – April 4, 2002) was a professional American football defensive lineman, who played for the National Football League'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 at the M. D. Anderson Hospital in Houston.
External links[]
- Lee Brooks Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
Categories:
- 1947 births
- 2002 deaths
- People from Shidler, Oklahoma
- American football defensive linemen
- Texas Longhorns football players
- Houston Oilers players
- St. Louis Cardinals (football) players
- Deaths from cancer in Texas
- Deaths from esophageal cancer
- American football defensive lineman, 1940s birth stubs