Willie Earl Gillespie
No. 23
Position:Wide receiver
Personal information
Born: (1961-10-24) October 24, 1961
Starkville, Mississippi, U.S.
Height:5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Weight:170 lb (77 kg)
Career information
High school:Starkville (MS)
College:East Mississippi CC
Chattanooga
Career history
Career NFL statistics
Games played:3
Receptions:3
Receiving Yards:46
Player stats at PFR

William Earl Gillespie (born October 24, 1961) is a former American football running back in the National Football League. He played for the Tampa Bay Bandits in the USFL, where he had the distinction of catching the winning touchdown in the Bandits first-ever USFL game.[1][2] He later played in the NFL, for both the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Minnesota Vikings.[3] He went to junior college at East Mississippi Community College,[4] and later attended the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. He is the current wide-receivers coach at Starkville High School, his alma mater in 1979.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Tampa Bay Football History Network - 1983 Tampa Bay Bandits".
  2. ↑ "1985 Tampa Bay Bandits football Roster on StatsCrew.com".
  3. ↑ "Willie Gillespie Stats, News and Video - WR". NFL.com.
  4. ↑ "EAST MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGE PLAYERS IN PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL". Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  5. ↑ Wait, Ben (1 September 2015). "Starkville's Brown has dominating night vs. Oxford". Retrieved 26 November 2017.
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