Buddy Tinsley
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![]() Tinsley on a 1950 Bowman football card | |
Born: | Damon, Texas | August 16, 1924
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Died: | September 14, 2011 (aged 87) Winnipeg, Manitoba |
Career information | |
CFL status | National |
Position(s) | DT |
College | Baylor |
NFL draft | 1948 / Round: 7 / Pick: 54 |
Drafted by | Philadelphia Eagles |
Career history | |
As player | |
1949 | Los Angeles Dons (AAFC) |
1950–1960 | Winnipeg Blue Bombers |
CFL West All-Star | 1950–1952, 1955–1958 |
Career stats | |
Robert Porter "Buddy" Tinsley (August 16, 1924 – September 14, 2011) was a Canadian Football League offensive lineman for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1982, and was a member of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers Hall of Fame, the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame and the Baylor University Hall of Fame.
Tinsley was born in Damon, Texas and played collegiately at Baylor. He spent one season with the NFL's Los Angeles Rams before joining the Blue Bombers, where he often played both ways at tackle.
He is noted for a story regarding the 38th Grey Cup, known as the "Mud Bowl" because of poor weather/field conditions. "As the legend goes, Tinsley, a rookie Bomber lineman, was face down in the muck and water, gasping for breath when an alert official pulled him from his murky grave".[1]
Tinsley died on September 14, 2011, aged 87, from undisclosed causes, in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Footnotes[]
- ^ Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame Archived July 15, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- 1924 births
- 2011 deaths
- American players of Canadian football
- American football offensive linemen
- Baylor Bears football players
- Canadian football offensive linemen
- Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductees
- Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame inductees
- Los Angeles Dons players
- People from Brazoria County, Texas
- Winnipeg Blue Bombers players
- American football offensive lineman, 1920s birth stubs