{{Short description|American football player (born 1937)}} {{Use American English|date=March 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox gridiron football biography | name = Carl Kammerer | number = 66 | position = Defensive end, linebacker | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1937|3|20|mf=y}} | birth_place = Stockton, California, U.S. | height_ft = 6 | height_in = 3 | weight_lb = 243 | high_school = Lodi (Lodi, California) | college = {{unbulleted list|San Francisco State (1956)|Pacific (1957-1960)|}} | draftyear = 1960 | draftround = 2 | draftpick = 22 | pastteams = * San Francisco 49ers ({{NFL Year|1961|1962}}) * Washington Redskins ({{NFL Year|1963|1969}}) * Atlanta Falcons ({{NFL Year|1970}})* | highlights = * Second-team All-PCC (1960) | statlabel1 = Fumble recoveries | statvalue1 = 7 | statlabel2 = Interceptions | statvalue2 = 3 | statlabel3 = Sacks | statvalue3 = 43.5 | pfr = KammCa20 }}
'''Carlton Cordell Kammerer''' (born March 20, 1937) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end and linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the San Francisco 49ers and the Washington Redskins. He played college football for the Pacific Tigers.<ref name="kammer2">(27 February 1967). [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19670227&id=X7UzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2jIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=6892,4469477&hl=en Kammerer Receives Award from Lodi BOBS], ''Lodi News-Sentinel''</ref>
== Early life and career == Kammerer was born on March 20, 1937, in Stockton, California. He attended Lodi High School in Lodi, California. He played college football for one year at San Joaquin Delta College (then called Stockton College), where he was named to the Junior College All-America Team in 1956. Kammerer then played for three seasons at College of the Pacific, now University of the Pacific, in 1957, 1958 and 1960, sitting out the 1959 season due to a broken hip in a logging accident during the summer of 1959.<ref name="nuke1">Brady, Dave (20 February 1977). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1977/02/20/carl-kammerer-football-to-nuclear-energy/e9df89d6-526e-4966-ab82-0f9b181e6ee7/ Carl Kammerer: Football to Nuclear Energy], ''The Washington Post''</ref>
Kammerer was selected in the second round of the 1960 NFL draft before completing dual degrees in History and Physical Education at College of the Pacific in the spring of 1961.<ref name="kammer1">Buttram, Bill. (29 July 1967). [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19670729&id=LttNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6IoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6968,2819479&hl=en Skins' Kammerer Combines Brains With Speed, Brawn], ''The Free-Lance Star'' (Fredericksburg, Virginia)</ref> After playing two years for the San Francisco 49ers and seven seasons for the Washington Redskins, Kammerer was traded to and later released by the Atlanta Falcons, retiring in 1969.<ref name="falc1">(14 February 1978). [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19780214&id=Y3ozAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UzIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=6606,4524836&hl=en Kammerer makes Hall of Fame], ''Lodi News-Sentinel''</ref>
Subsequent to his 9-year NFL career, he served in government positions,<ref name="kammer3">(30 October 1973). [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19731030&id=NN8zAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PDIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=5319,4978614&hl=en Ex-Lodi, Pro-gridder, Kammerer with ACTION], ''Lodi News-Sentinel''</ref> including as a senior executive at the Atomic Energy Commission and its successor agency the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.<ref name="nuke1"/> Kammerer is a retired charter member of the federal government's Senior Executive Service. He is currently involved in community service projects in the metropolitan Washington DC area.
Kammerer completed graduate work at San Francisco State University during the offseason and in night school while playing for the 49ers from 1961-62. He also took a sabbatical from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 1993-94 to attend the University of Maryland for a year to study German, History and Culture, including two months in a German language immersion program. In all, he completed 80 post-graduate credits.<ref name="nuke1"/>
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