Daddy Potts
Position: | Tackle |
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Born: | York County, South Carolina | August 16, 1898
Died: | August 11, 1981 Columbia, South Carolina | (aged 82)
Height: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
Weight: | 235 lb (107 kg) |
Career information | |
High school: | Fort Mill (SC) |
College: | Clemson |
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Player stats at NFL.com · PFR |
Robert Crockett "Daddy" Potts (August 16, 1898 – August 11, 1981)[1] was an American football player. He played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) for the Frankford Yellow Jackets in the 1926 NFL season. Potts won the 1926 NFL championship with the Yellow Jackets. Outside of the NFL, he played for the Millville Big Blue, a successful independent team out of New Jersey. In 1925 Rae and Millville (sometimes called the Haven-Villa of Winter Haven) played several pick-up games in Florida against the Tampa Cardinals, featuring Red Grange.[2]
References[]
- ^ 1989-1980 Necrology at Oldest Living Pro Football Players Archived October 18, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Millville". Archived from the original on May 11, 2009. Retrieved April 1, 2009.
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Categories:
- 1896 births
- 1981 deaths
- American football tackles
- Clemson Tigers football players
- Frankford Yellow Jackets players
- Millville Football & Athletic Club players
- All-Southern college football players
- People from Fort Mill, South Carolina
- Players of American football from South Carolina
- Burials in South Carolina
- American football biography stubs