John Small
Linebacker, American football player
1946 – 2012
Who was John Small?
John Kenneth Small was an American football linebacker with the Atlanta Falcons and the Detroit Lions in the National Football League.
Small was born in Lumberton, North Carolina. He was the first round draft choice number 12 from the Citadel to the Atlanta Falcons. He played 3 seasons with the Atlanta Falcons and 2 seasons with the Detroit Lions. He was drafted in the first round with the twelfth overall pick in the 1970 NFL Draft.
After football, Small was a speaker at schools and hospitals in the Augusta area and helped create a Christian ministry program to help troubled youth called JKS Team Incorporated.
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- Born
- Nov 20, 1946
Lumberton - Profession
- Education
- The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina
- Lived in
- Lumberton
- Died
- Dec 10, 2012
Augusta
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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