Peter Falconer Beathard (born March 7, 1942) is a former American collegiate and Professional Football

Professional football

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 quarterback

Quarterback

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 who played professionally in the American Football League

American Football League

The American Football League was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League merged with it. The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence...

 (AFL), the National Football League

National Football League

The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

 (NFL), and the World Football League

World Football League

The World Football League was a short-lived gridiron football league that played in 1974 and part of 1975. Although the league's proclaimed ambition was to bring American football onto a worldwide stage, the farthest the WFL reached was placing a team – the Hawaiians – in Honolulu, Hawaii. The...

 (WFL).

College career

Beathard played college football

College football

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 at the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

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, winning the National Championship in 1962. Both he and Ron Vander Kelen

Ron Vander Kelen

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, the Wisconsin

Wisconsin Badgers football

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 quarterback were named the Rose Bowl Player Of The Game in the 1963 Rose Bowl

1963 Rose Bowl

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.

Professional career

Beathard was the 1964

1964 American Football League Draft

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 first-round draft choice of the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs

Kansas City Chiefs

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. In 1967 Beathard was traded to the Houston Oilers

Tennessee Titans

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 in exchange for quarterback Jacky Lee and led the Oilers to the AFL Eastern Division title before losing to the Oakland Raiders

Oakland Raiders

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 40-7 in the AFL Championship Game. Beathard took the Oilers to the AFL playoffs

AFL playoffs, 1969

-Playoffs:-Divisional playoffs:Kansas City Chiefs 13, New York Jets 6|referee= Jack ReaderScoring*NY - Field goal Turner 27*KC - Field goal Stenerud 23*KC - Field goal Stenerud 25*NY - Field goal Turner 7...

 again in 1969.

He finished his pro career in the WFL playing for the Portland Storm

Portland Storm

The Portland Storm were an American football team based out of Portland, Oregon, playing in the World Football League. When the World Football League was created in October 1973, the Storm was the original New York franchise. When the Boston Bulls merged with New York to become the New York...

 in 1974 and the Chicago Winds

Chicago Winds

The Chicago Winds was the World Football League's ill-fated 1975 successor to the Chicago Fire. The team was named the Winds because Chicago was nicknamed "The Windy City." The Winds played at Soldier Field and was assigned to the WFL's Western Division for 1975 .-Pursuit of Joe...

in 1975.

External links

• Beathard's 1965 Topps football card