{"id":2382,"date":"2026-06-01T18:07:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2026-06-01T18:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:07:21","slug":"raymond-berry-sure-handed-hall-of-fame-receiver-for-the-colts-dies-at-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=2382","title":{"rendered":"Raymond Berry, sure-handed Hall of Fame receiver for the Colts, dies at 93"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Catching passes from Johnny Unitas, he helped lead the team to two NFL titles. He later coached the Patriots to the Super Bowl.<\/strong><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=2376\">Reds place shortstop Elly De La Cruz on the 10-day IL with a right hamstring strain<\/a><\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2378\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f6f76dc79580ebc7f61d7721115853e4-1001x1024.jpg\" width=\"1001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f6f76dc79580ebc7f61d7721115853e4-1001x1024.jpg 1001w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f6f76dc79580ebc7f61d7721115853e4-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f6f76dc79580ebc7f61d7721115853e4-768x786.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f6f76dc79580ebc7f61d7721115853e4-1502x1536.jpg 1502w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f6f76dc79580ebc7f61d7721115853e4-2002x2048.jpg 2002w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1001px) 100vw, 1001px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Baltimore Colts receiver Raymond Berry signs a young fan&#8217;s helmet at training camp in 1965. (William A. Smith\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Raymond Berry, a Hall of Fame wide receiver who played an integral part in the Baltimore Colts\u2019 National Football League championships in 1958 and 1959, and who later coached the New England Patriots to their first Super Bowl appearance, died May 25 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He was 93.<\/p>\n<p>His death was announced by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballhof.com\/news\/pro-football-hall-of-famer-raymond-berry-93-dies\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.profootballhof.com\/news\/pro-football-hall-of-famer-raymond-berry-93-dies\">Pro Football Hall of Fame<\/a>, which inducted Mr. Berry in 1973, his first year of eligibility.<\/p>\n<p>Renowned for his tireless, meticulous preparation and laser focus, Mr. Berry, a lowly 20th-round draft pick, overcame his athletic limitations \u2014 lack of speed, spindly build, poor eyesight and a sometimes gimpy knee \u2014 to emerge as what many pundits believed to be the premier wide receiver of his era.<\/p>\n<p>For much of his 13-year career, he was the favorite target of the Colts\u2019 Hall of Fame quarterback Johnny Unitas. Mr. Berry caught 631 passes for 9,275 yards, both NFL records at the time, and scored 68 touchdowns. He was a six-time all-pro selection and was named to the NFL\u2019s 75th Anniversary All-Time Team in 1994. The Colts retired his number, 82, in 1968, the year after he retired as a player.<\/p>\n<p>In the electrifying 1958 NFL Championship game, well before the advent of the Super Bowl, Unitas and Mr. Berry led the underdog Colts (then of Baltimore, now of Indianapolis) to a sudden-death overtime victory over the powerhouse New York Giants in what became known as \u201cthe Greatest Game Ever Played.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With 60,000 fans in the stands at Yankee Stadium and a national television audience of 45 million, the game had the most viewers of any NFL contest to that point. It was credited with triggering an explosion of pro football\u2019s popularity and strengthening its hold on the nation\u2019s sports fans.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Berry turned in one of the greatest performances by a wide receiver in league history, catching 12 passes for 178 yards and a touchdown and hauling in key catches during the dramatic game-tying drive at the end of regulation play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFew fans have understood that the key to victory in that game was not its celebrated coaches nor any of its marquee stars but an ungainly wide receiver who lacked the pure athletic ability to play pro sports and whose peculiar obsessions made him an oddball to his teammates,\u201d Mark Bowden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/2008\/04\/22\/best-gameever0428\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a> in a 2008 Sports Illustrated article about the game. \u201cHe was, nevertheless, the prototype of the modern football player.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2379\" height=\"753\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d3e4207de591fbee9294b20348166b8f-1024x753.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d3e4207de591fbee9294b20348166b8f-1024x753.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d3e4207de591fbee9294b20348166b8f-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d3e4207de591fbee9294b20348166b8f-768x565.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d3e4207de591fbee9294b20348166b8f-1536x1129.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d3e4207de591fbee9294b20348166b8f-2048x1506.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Mr. Berry snags a pass from quarterback Johnny Unitas in a 1962 game against the Detroit Lions. (AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Mr. Berry had an unspectacular college career at Southern Methodist University in Texas and was nearly overlooked in the 1954 draft. Few expected him to make the Colts let alone become a stellar receiver, but his drive and desire made him an elite player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRaymond just didn\u2019t think there was any detail too small to be ignored or overlooked,\u201d Don Shula, who coached the Colts during part of Mr. Berry\u2019s career, told Investor\u2019s Business Daily in 2013. \u201cThose are the things he worked on. Those were the things that made him great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was so focused on the details of his physical and mental well-being that he carried his own bathroom scale on road trips to monitor his weight. At 6-foot-2, he believed that his ideal playing weight was 186, and he was careful not to deviate from that number.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not as fast as some of these guys and not as big or tall as others, and there\u2019s nothing I can do about that,\u201d Mr. Berry wrote in a 1959 Sports Illustrated article. \u201cYou can\u2019t grow and you can\u2019t run faster than your physical equipment lets you. All you can do is squeeze the very most out of what you have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He had large, strong hands that rarely dropped a pass (he squeezed Silly Putty relentlessly to strengthen his grip) but it was his intelligence and indefatigable study of his opponents that made him nearly impossible to defend.<\/p>\n<p>Before rule changes adopted to protect receivers, defenders could hit them all the way down the field, making each route like a run through a gantlet. Mr. Berry might not outrun a swift defensive back, but he would outsmart him and inevitably demoralize him with an acrobatic over-the-shoulder catch of a pinpoint Unitas pass on a dead run.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in his rookie season, in 1955, he filled countless notebooks with detailed notes about opponents\u2019 defenses and the routes he should run. He studied game films so assiduously that he insisted that the Colts buy him a film projector when he signed with the team. \u201cI must be the only player whose contract included his own Bell and Howell projector,\u201d Berry told the Baltimore Sun <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/2009\/12\/15\/catching-up-with-former-colt-raymond-berry\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/2009\/12\/15\/catching-up-with-former-colt-raymond-berry\/\">in 2009<\/a>. \u201cPeople thought I was nuts.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2380\" height=\"963\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8a755c53bc56c15cf29ddd6e960b2f38-1024x963.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8a755c53bc56c15cf29ddd6e960b2f38-1024x963.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8a755c53bc56c15cf29ddd6e960b2f38-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8a755c53bc56c15cf29ddd6e960b2f38-768x722.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8a755c53bc56c15cf29ddd6e960b2f38-1536x1445.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8a755c53bc56c15cf29ddd6e960b2f38-2048x1926.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Mr. Berry and Colts quarterback Johnny Unitas review game film in 1967. (William Smith\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>He also benefited greatly from arriving in Baltimore just a year ahead of Unitas, an unheralded quarterback who had been cut by the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1955. Known for his crew cut and black high-top cleats, Unitas found a hardworking soulmate in Mr. Berry.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=2373\">South Africa soccer body says World Cup squad will depart Monday after visa delay<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohn was struggling to stay in the league too and loved playing football as much as I did,\u201d Mr. Berry told Investor\u2019s Business Daily. \u201cWe were so highly motivated it was off the charts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He and Unitas spent hours discussing games and play calling. They would work in the dark on passing routes after practice had ended, and they came to define the modern pro game. In an era dominated by Unitas\u2019s strong, accurate arm and Mr. Berry\u2019s precision route-running, they made the passing game the centerpiece of offensive play, a trend that continues to this day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnitas and Raymond changed the passing game in pro football forever,\u201d Upton Bell, former personnel director for the Colts and general manager of the Patriots (as well as son of Bert Bell, NFL commissioner in the 1940s and 1950s), said in a 2023 interview for this obituary. \u201cDespite all the bigger, faster, stronger receivers in the game today, Raymond will always be in my top 10 of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raymond Emmett Berry Jr. was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Feb. 27, 1933, and grew up in Paris, in East Texas near the Oklahoma border. His father was a teacher and football coach, and his mother was a homemaker.<\/p>\n<p>As a scrawny teen, Mr. Berry did not start on his high school team, coached by his father, until his senior year. He later said he became obsessed with the 1953 biopic \u201cCrazylegs,\u201d starring the Los Angeles Rams halfback and receiver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/local\/2004\/01\/29\/elroy-crazylegs-hirsch-80\/5e1c8952-b00a-4b21-8a1b-7115a7c66c98\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elroy Hirsch<\/a> as himself. He saw the film five times and, he recalled, \u201cI decided then that the thing I wanted to do most in the world was to catch passes for a professional football team the way Hirsch did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After a stint at a junior college in Kerrville, Texas, the only school to recruit him, Mr. Berry went to SMU in Dallas, where he caught 33 passes in three seasons and played mostly defensive back. Nonetheless, the Colts plucked him late in the draft.<\/p>\n<p>At SMU and later with the Colts, Mr. Berry understood the value of studying film of his opponents. What he learned about their tendencies helped him anticipate what they would do to guard him. \u201cI was, in a sense, reading their mail,\u201d he told Investor\u2019s Business Daily.<\/p>\n<p>His wife, the former Sally Crook, also lent a hand, throwing passes to him in the park. He honed his skills on those errant throws, diving and leaping to catch them.<\/p>\n<p>So sure were his hands that he was charged with losing just one fumble in his NFL career. And Mr. Berry was convinced that the referees blew the call. He insisted that he hadn\u2019t caught the ball that they ruled he had fumbled.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his wife, whom he married in 1960, survivors include three children, Suzanne, Ashley and Mark; and nine grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>After retiring from the Colts after the 1967 season, Mr. Berry worked as an assistant coach with the Dallas Cowboys, the University of Arkansas, the Detroit Lions and the Cleveland Browns. He joined the New England Patriots as an assistant coach in the late 1970s.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2381\" height=\"722\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/13f8d0d6976125d4ca435441471605bf-1024x722.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/13f8d0d6976125d4ca435441471605bf-1024x722.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/13f8d0d6976125d4ca435441471605bf-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/13f8d0d6976125d4ca435441471605bf-768x541.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/13f8d0d6976125d4ca435441471605bf-1536x1083.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/13f8d0d6976125d4ca435441471605bf-2048x1444.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Mr. Berry coached the New England Patriots to a Super Bowl berth in January 1986. (AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>When the Patriots fired head coach Ron Meyer eight games into the 1984 season, Mr. Berry took over. The following season, he led the Patriots to a wild card berth in the playoffs. They won three straight road games on the way to their first Super Bowl, in January 1986, a 46-10 drubbing by the Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Berry was fired by the Patriots in 1990 \u2014 after disagreements with the team\u2019s general manager \u2014 even though he was then the winningest coach in the team\u2019s history. His record of 48-39 has since been obliterated by Bill Belichick. Mr. Berry coached quarterbacks for Detroit and Denver before retiring in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sports Illustrated, Mr. Berry said he knew \u2014 even before the Colts had won \u2014 that his career would forever be defined by the 1958 championship game against the Giants.<\/p>\n<p>In preparation, he had pored over 25 pages of handwritten notes. He reminded himself to use head fakes to fool defenders and to focus intently on the football as it arrived in his hands. Each page was divided into segments with bold and starred commands: \u201cWatch footing on starts!\u201d; \u201cBe bulldog on your block\u201d; \u201cKnow snap count!\u201d; \u201cDo your job!\u201d; \u201cBe best competitor on field!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At his induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Mr. Berry was presented by Weeb Ewbank, who coached the Colts to their 1958 and 1959 NFL titles. Calling his former player \u201cpro football\u2019s most feared receiver,\u201d Ewbank added, \u201cRaymond and Raymond alone turned himself into the receiver he became.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=2370\">Battling vertigo, NASCAR driver Alex Bowman says \u2018I\u2019m as close to 100% as I\u2019m going to get\u2019<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catching passes from Johnny Unitas, he helped lead the team to two NFL titles. 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