Carr was born in
Wheatley Hill, County Durham, and worked as a bricklayer at the local
colliery. He played football for
Spennymoor United before making his debut in the
Third Division North for
Darlington during the
1957–58 Football League season. Carr played his part in Darlington causing an upset in
that season's FA Cup by eliminating
Chelsea, who had won the
league title only two years before. He scored their second goal as they took a 3–0 lead at
Stamford Bridge, but Chelsea made the final score 3–3 to earn a
replay. Because of injuries, Carr was moved to
outside right, a position he had never played, for the replay, but according to the
Manchester Guardian, "he had his share of that inspiration that lifted the whole team high above its normal form". The score after 90 minutes was 1–1. In the first nine minutes of
extra time, Darlington scored three times to take the match 4–1. Carr, who was by then playing at centre-forward because
Ron Harbertson had injured a shoulder, scored the second of those three with a header after
Tommy Moran's blocked shot had rebounded to him. In his five years in Darlington's first team, Carr scored 42 league goals from 132 matches. He moved on to
Workington in 1962, and was part of the team that won
promotion from the
Fourth Division in 1964 under
Ken Furphy's management. The following season, Carr scored one of Workington's five goals as they knocked First Division
Blackburn Rovers out of the
League Cup. He scored 47 goals in 108 league games for Workington before following Furphy to
Watford, but his career was ended by a car accident not long after his arrival. Carr returned to the north-east, where he died on 12 November 2013 at the age of 76. ==References==