Bill Carpenter

William Stanley "Bill" Carpenter Jr. is a retired American Army officer and former college football player, born on September 30, 1937. At the United States Military Academy at West Point he played split end for the Army football team and became nationally known as the "Lonesome End", a role in which he was lined up near the far sideline and kept out of the huddle, signalling to the quarterback by hand to draw double coverage and open space for the running game. He played on the undefeated 1958 team, was team captain and an All-American in 1959, and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1982. His later fame came from the Vietnam War, where he won the Distinguished Service Cross for directing an airstrike on his own position to save his company.