Don Chandler, Standout Kicker in N.F.L., Dies at 76

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Don Chandler, who played on four N.F.L. championship teams with the Giants and the Green Bay Packers, becoming one of the leading punters and place-kickers of his era, died on Thursday in Tulsa, Okla. He was 76.

The cause was cancer, his wife, Pat, said.

Chandler was only a fifth-round pick when the Giants selected him in the 1956 draft, but he went on to be chosen as the punter on the N.F.L.’s all-decade team for the 1960s.

In his rookie season, Chandler punted for the Giants team that won the N.F.L. championship at the outset of the franchise’s glory years. In his nine seasons with the Giants, alongside future Hall of Famers like Y. A. Tittle, Frank Gifford, Sam Huff and Andy Robustelli, Chandler played for six Eastern Conference championship teams.

Chandler was traded to the Packers after the 1964 season and played on three consecutive championship squads — including the winners of the first two Super Bowls in 1967 and ’68 — as Coach Vince Lombardi was building a dynasty.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/13/sports/football/don-chandler-kicker-for-giants-and-packers-dies-at-76.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper