He played college football for the SMU Mustangs and the Tulsa Golden Hurricane.
Anderson played college football at Southern Methodist University for the SMU Mustangs, after two years with them, he transferred to the University of Tulsa and played for the Tulsa Golden Hurricane.
Anderson threw the first touchdown pass in Astrodome history—to Galena Park's Howard Twilley—when Tulsa defeated the Houston Cougars 14–0 in 1965, the first football game ever played in the dome.
He was selected by the Oilers in the eleventh round of the 1965 AFL redshirt draft, with the 81st overall pick.
He died on April 11, 1996, of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (known popularly as Lou Gehrig's disease).