| File:Elgie Tobin.png Tobin pictured in La Vie 1915, Penn State yearbook | |
| Fullback, quarterback | |
| Personal information | |
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| Date of birth: May 7, 1885 | |
| Place of birth: Roscoe, Pennsylvania | |
| Date of death: August 3, 1953 (aged 68) | |
| Career information | |
| College: Penn State West Virginia | |
| No regular season or postseason appearances | |
| Career history | |
| As player: * Youngstown Patricians (1915–1919)
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| As coach: * West Virginia (1915) (assistant)
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| Career highlights and awards | |
* NFL Champion (1920)
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| Stats at pro-football-reference.com | |
Elza Williams "Elgie" Tobin (May 7, 1886 – September 3, 1953) was a professional American football player with the independent Youngstown Patricians and a player-coach with the Akron Pros of the American Professional Football Association (renamed the National Football League in 1922) where he wore number 8.[1] Tobin played with Patricians from 1915 until 1919. When the team folded, Tobin joined the Akron Pros of the newly formed AFPA. In 1920, Tobin coached the Pros to win the first ever NFL Championship. The very next season, he split the team's coaching duties with Fritz Pollard, making Pollard the first African-American coach in the NFL.
Tobin was slated to coach a proposed Youngstown team granted by the National Football League in 1922. However, the project died in the planning stages.
Prior to playing professional football, Tobin played college football at Pennsylvania State University and West Virginia University. He lettered in football for the Mountaineers in 1907. At Penn State, where records list him as "Yegg Tobin," he lettered for three years (1912, 1913, 1914).
References[]
- ↑ Maxymuk, John (July 18, 2007). "Uniform Numbers of the NFL: Pre-1933 Defunct Teams". Paul Robeson Library. Rutgers University. http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~maxymuk/home/ongoing/akron.html. Retrieved June 5, 2011.
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