Charles Broughton "Brute" Williams (October 15, 1922 – February 10, 2011) was an American football player.
[2][3] Williams played for a winless 1946 Florida team that compiled an 0–9 record, catching 29 passes for 490 yards in eight games.
[4] Despite missing the last two games of the 1946 season due to injury, he led the NCAA in receiving yards that year.
[2][5] In the Gators' 1946 loss to North Carolina, Williams caught eight passes for 166 yards,[2] setting a Florida Gators record for single-game receiving yards that stood for more than 20 years until broken by Carlos Alvarez in 1969.
"[9] In March 1947, Williams gave up his final two years of college eligibility and signed a contract to play professional football for the Chicago Bears,[10] who selected him in the 1945 NFL draft.