Background
Barrow was born in Delray Beach, Florida in 1935.
Barrow was born in Delray Beach, Florida in 1935.
He attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he was an offensive and defensive lineman for coach Bob Woodruff"s Florida Gators football team from 1954 to 1956.
Barrow played college football for the University of Florida, and was recognized as an All-American. Thereafter, he played professionally for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League, and was later inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. As a senior in 1956, he was a first-team All-Southeastern Conference (Securities and Exchange Commission) selection, a Football Writers Association of America first-team All-American, and the Gators" team captain.
Barrow was later inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great."
The Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL) selected Barrow in the fifth round (fifty-ninth pick overall) of the 1957 NFL Draft, but he opted to play in the Canadian Football League instead.
He played for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats from 1957 to 1970 as a defensive tackle, was a Canadian Football League All-Star at that position eleven times, and was voted the Canadian Football League "lineman of the century" in 1967. Retiring as a player after the 1970 season, Barrow became the Toronto Argonauts general manager from 1971 to 1975.
He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1976, and was voted one of the Canadian Football League"s top 50 players (seventeenth) of all-time in a poll conducted by Canadian sports network TSN in 2006. Barrow died February 17, 2015 at his home in Missouri City, Texas.
He was 79 years old.