49 Days to Gator Football: Neal Anderson

Charles Neal Anderson played tailback for Charley Pell and Galen Hall's Florida Gators football teams from 1982 to 1985. He shared the Gators' backfield with fullback John L. Williams for four years. As a freshman, Neal ran for 197 yards versus the Kentucky Wildcats in 1982. As a sophomore he made a seventy-six-yard touchdown against the LSU Tigers in 1983, and 178 yards and an eighty-yard touchdown against the Tennessee Volunteers as a junior in 1984. He was a team captain in 1985, a first-team All-SEC selection in 1985, an Associated Press honorable mention All-American in 1984 and 1985, and the recipient of the Gators' Fergie Ferguson Award in 1985.In his four years as a Gator, Anderson had fourteen games with 100 yards or more rushing, 639 carries for 3,234 yards rushing and thirty touchdowns, forty-nine receptions for 525 yards receiving and two touchdowns, and ninety-seven yards passing. In terms of career rushing yardage, he remains the Gators' third all-time running back behind Errict Rhett and Emmitt Smith. He is considered to be one of the Gators' greatest running backs: http://gatorenvy.com/threads/who-is-your-favorite-gator-running-back.15550/