Al Carmichael, Whose Catch Made A.F.L. History, Dies at 90
He was not on the list.
Al Carmichael, who scored the first touchdown in the old American Football League in 1960 while playing for the Denver Broncos, died on Saturday in Palm Desert, Calif. He was 90.
His death was announced by the Broncos.
In the A.F.L.’s inaugural game, on Sept. 9, 1960, Carmichael caught a 59-yard touchdown pass from Frank Tripucka, and the Broncos beat the Boston Patriots, 13-10, at Nickerson Field, on the Boston University campus.
A halfback, Carmichael played for Denver in 1960 and 1961 after a six-year stint with the Green Bay Packers, who had selected him in the first round (seventh overall). He set an N.F.L. record with a 106-yard kick return in 1956 and was elected to the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame in 1974.
The A.F.L. and the N.F.L. announced a merger in 1966 and officially became a single league in 1970.
Albert Reinhold Carmichael was born on Nov. 10, 1928, in Boston. While playing for U.S.C., he scored the winning touchdown in the 1953 Rose Bowl against Wisconsin. It was the only score in the game, which U.S.C. won, 7-0.
Carmichael played as a stuntman in more than 50 films including Jim Thorpe – All-American (1951) for Burt Lancaster (1951), Saturday's Hero (1951), All-American (1953), Pork Chop Hill (1959), It Started with a Kiss (1959), The Big Operator, Elmer Gantry (1960), one of the doubles for Kirk Douglas in Spartacus (1960), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), Son of Flubber (1962), How the West was Won (1962), and the TV show Rawhide.
The Desert Sun newspaper in Palm Springs said he is survived by his wife, Barbara; two daughters, Pam and Stacy, from an earlier marriage, to Jan Carmichael, who died; and two stepsons, Darin and Bruce Durkee. His son, Chris, also died before him.
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