Frank Budd
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| Date of birth | July 20, 1939 |
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| Place of birth | Long Branch, New Jersey |
| Date of death | April 29, 2014 (aged 74) |
| Place of death | Marlton, New Jersey |
| Career information | |
| Position(s) | Wide receiver / Return specialist |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) |
| Weight | 175 lb (79 kg) |
| College | Villanova |
| NFL draft | 1962 / Round: 7 / Pick: 96 |
| Career history | |
| As player | |
| 1962 | Philadelphia Eagles |
| 1963 | Washington Redskins |
| Career highlights and awards | |
| Records | 100 yard dash |
| Career stats | |
| Receptions | 10 |
| Receiving yards | 236 |
| Receiving TDs | 1 |
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Francis Joseph "Frank" Budd (July 20, 1939 – April 29, 2014) was an American football wide receiver in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Washington Redskins. Budd was an Olympic athlete who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where he finished fifth in the finals of the 100 meter event and was part of the team that finished first in the 4×100 meter relay before being disqualified on a baton pass. He set the world record in the 100-yard dash with a time of 9.2 seconds in 1961, breaking the record that had been set by Mel Patton in 1948.
Born in Long Branch, New Jersey, Budd played high school football at Asbury Park High School in Asbury Park.
He ran track at Villanova University but never played a down of college football. At Villanova he was coached by their legendary track coach James 'Jumbo' Elliott.
Amazingly. Budd achieved his success despite a deformed right calf, the legacy of a childhood disease, possibly polio.
Budd was considered the world's best 100 y/m sprinter in 1961. That year, he was to equal the world record for 100 y at 9.3 s, set a new world record at 9.2 s for that distance, and was a member of a team that set a world record in the 4 × 100 m relay of 39.1 s.
The next year, 1962, he equaled the world record for 200 m/220 y on a straight track of 20.0 s.
Budd had finished second behind Ray Norton in the United States Olympic trials at 100 m in a closely fought contest between the first four finishers, all recording the same time of 10.4 s. At the Olympics themselves, Budd was to finish fifth in the final with perhaps his inexperience at major championships telling against him.
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