{"id":361669,"date":"2025-11-07T07:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/361669\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T07:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:21:14","slug":"woodrow-lowe-college-football-hall-of-famer-dead-at-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/361669\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodrow Lowe, college football Hall of Famer, dead at 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woodrow Lowe, a three-time All-American at Alabama before and an 11-year NFL veteran, died after battling a lengthy illness.<\/p>\n<p>He was 71.<\/p>\n<p>Lowe\u2019s brother <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/alabamafootball\/2025\/11\/3-time-alabama-all-american-college-football-hall-of-famer-dies-at-71.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed to AL.com<\/a> that he died Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Woodrow Lowe died Thursday morning after battling a lengthy illness. Alabama Sports Hall of Fame<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWoodrow was a great older brother,\u201d Eddie Lowe, who currently serves as the mayor of Phenix City in Alabama, told AL.com. \u201cHe pushed me, not just in football, but in life. He was pushed himself, and he passed that down to me. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a good person, a very good person. He loved people and gave of himself his entire life. He lived a good life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The linebacker started his college football career in 1972 \u2014 the first year in which freshmen were permitted to play on varsity squads \u2014 and soon became a starter for an Alabama team that won the SEC championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Alabama, we had great expectations,\u201d Lowe\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/sports\/2015\/03\/high_expectations_reverence_fo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told AL.com back in 2015<\/a>. \u201cIt was never, ever about me. It was always about the team, the program and the organization. The thing that I thrive off even today was we were a team. Your teammates knew the expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Woodrow Lowe played 11 seasons for the Chargers. Denver Post via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>During his sophomore season, Lowe recorded a program-record 134 tackles, helping lead the Crimson Tide to another SEC title. He also earned All-SEC first team and All-American honors \u2014 the first of three straight nods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing the way he gets through a mess to make a tackle,\u201d famed Alabama head coach Paul \u201cBear\u201d Bryant told the Miami Herald in 1973. \u201cWoodrow has more ability at linebacker than anyone who\u2019s been around here since Lee Roy, and he\u2019s bigger and faster than Lee Roy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Lowe was selected by the Chargers in the fifth round of the 1976 NFL Draft and spent the entirety of his 11-year career in San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>During his time with the Chargers, Lowe started 151 games, notching 21 interceptions and 26 sacks before his retirement following the 1986 season.<\/p>\n<p>Woodrow Lowe was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2009. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>After retiring, Lowe was selected to both the Chargers\u2019 40th and 50th anniversary teams.  <\/p>\n<p>Lowe was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 2001 and the College Football Hall of Fame in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Woodrow Lowe, a three-time All-American at Alabama before and an 11-year NFL veteran, died after battling a lengthy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":361670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[8802,1428,5416,1318,8986,1317,1315,1316,1232,11656,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-361669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-alabama-crimson-tide","9":"tag-college-football","10":"tag-deaths","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","13":"tag-ncaa","14":"tag-ncaa-football","15":"tag-ncaafootball","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-obits","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115507212207189055","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}