Career
He served as the head football coach Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana (1966–1971), Hanover College (1972–1976), the University of Dayton (1977–1980), and the College of the Holy Cross (1981–1985), compiling a career college football coaching record of 137–58–7. Carter committed suicide after the 1985 season at the age of 42. He had been hospitalized for psychiatric treatment of depression.
His father had died of cancer the previous August and his mother was terminally ill but friends claimed he was also upset about his lack of career advancement.
In previous years Carter had been offered jobs at several major programs, but Holy Cross would not release him from his contract and those offers had stopped coming.
