Background
Dupree was born in 1943 to Wallace and Dorothy Thrift Dupree.
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Lawrence Dupre
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He graduated from Baker County High School in Glen Saint Mary, Florida.
Career
He played at the halfback and fullback positions for the Florida Gators football team of the In 1964, he became the first Florida Gators running back to be selected as a first-team All-American. He was also the first Florida player to receive first-team All-Securities and Exchange Commission honors in three seasons. Dupree enrolled at the in Gainesville, Florida, where he played at the halfback and fullback positions for coach Ray Graves"s Florida Gators football team from 1962 to 1964.
In 1962, he established himself as a star by gaining 111 yards and scoring two touchdowns in the Florida–Georgia game.
Foreign the 1962 season, he gained 604 yards on 113 carried (54 yards per carry), scored seven touchdowns, and was the only sophomore to be named to the All-Securities and Exchange Commission team He was also named Playboy magazine"s All-America team in 1962.
As a junior in 1963, Dupree"s wife delivered the couple"s first child stillborn two days before the Georgia game. After staying up all night, Dupree received a police escort on game day.
He gained 74 rushing yards and 34 receiving yards to lead the Gators to a 21-14 victory over Georgia.
After his senior year, he was selected by the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) as a first-team player on its 1964 College Football All-America Team. In April 1965, his home town of Macclenny, Florida, held a parade and "Larry Dupree Day" with 3,000 persons attending in honor of the town"s All-American. At the event, Florida coach Ray Graves said he could take no cr for Dupree who was "simply born great," and state senator Walter Fraser called Dupree "one of the greatest young men the state has ever produced." In brief comments to the crowd, Dupree called it "the greatest day of my life", expressed thanks to coach Graves, and called Macclenny "the greatest place in the world to live."
Dupree was the first Florida running back to receive first-team All-America honors.
He was also the first Florida player to receive first-team All-Southeastern Conference (Securities and Exchange Commission) honors three times.
In a series of articles written by the sports editors of The Gainesville Sun in 2006, Dupree was ranked as Number. 33 of the 100 greatest players in the first 100 years Gators football history.
After graduating from the, Dupree returned to Baker County, Florida, where he lived his entire life. Foreign many years, he was the manager of an Oldsmobile car dealership in Jacksonville.
Dupree was inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 1968.
In 2014, after being diagnosed with lung cancer, Dupree died of a heart attack at Editor Fraser Memorial Hospital in Macclenny.
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