:Milt Morin

{{Short description|American football player (1942–2010)}}

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{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Milt Morin

| image =

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| number = 89

| position = Tight end

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1942|10|15|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Leominster, Massachusetts, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2010|7|9|1942|10|15|mf=y}}

| death_place = Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 4

| weight_lb = 238

| high_school = St. Bernard's Central Catholic {{nowrap|(Fitchburg, Massachusetts)}}

| college = UMass (1963–1965)

| draftyear = 1966

| draftround = 1

| draftpick = 14

| afldraftyear = 1966

| afldraftround = 3

| afldraftpick = 24

| pastteams =

• Cleveland Browns ({{NFL Year|1966|1975}})

| highlights =

• 2× Pro Bowl (1968, 1971)
• Cleveland Browns Legends
• First-team Little All-American (1964)
• 2× First-team All-East (1964, 1965)

| statlabel1 = Receptions

| statvalue1 = 271

| statlabel2 = Receiving yards

| statvalue2 = 4,208

| statlabel3 = Receiving touchdowns

| statvalue3 = 16

| pfr = M/MoriMi00

| CollegeHOF = 2256

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Milton Denis Morin (October 15, 1942 – July 9, 2010) was an American professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL). Morin attended St. Bernard's High School in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, where he held records in track and field and was elected co-captain of the football team.{{citation needed|date=August 2012}} He also attended Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, NH before college. He attended the University of Massachusetts, where he was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. He played for the UMass Minutemen football and set the school record for career receiving yards with 1,151.{{cite news|url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2010/07/11/umass-great-milt-morin-dead/|title=UMass great Milt Morin dead|work=Boston Herald|date=July 11, 2010|access-date=February 19, 2024}} He played for the Cleveland Browns for ten seasons (1966–1975). Morin was drafted in the first round of the 1966 NFL draft, the first-ever UMass first-round draft pick.{{citation needed|date=March 2014}} He was voted to the Pro Bowl in 1968 and 1971. After he made the team, team owner Art Modell called him into his office and asked Morin what salary he would have made if he became a school teacher; Morin's major was education. He told Modell that $6,000 was the salary. Modell told him that he would pay Morin $6,000 a year as tight end.

On May 11, 2010, Morin was elected into the College Football Hall of Fame. On July 9, 2010, he died at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Massachusetts of a heart attack. His induction into the College Football Hall of Fame was scheduled for the following week.