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Thurston Towle

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Thurston Towle
Personal information
Born:(1905-01-01)January 1, 1905
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, U.S.
Died:October 19, 1960(1960-10-19) (aged 55)
Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Height:5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight:160 lb (73 kg)
Career information
College:Brown University
Position:End
Career history
Player stats at PFR

Edward Thurston Towle (January 1, 1905 – October 19, 1960) was an American football player.

Towle was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in 1905 and attended the Moses Brown School in Providence. He then attended Brown University.[1] He played for the 1926 Brown Bears football team that compiled a 9–0–1 and became known as the "Iron Men" due to playing without substitution in key games. Towle played all but two minutes against Yale, Dartmouth, and Harvard.[2]

He was hired as Brown's ends coach in the fall of 1928.[3] He continued in that post at least through the 1935 season.[4][5]

He also played one game in the National Football League (NFL) with the Boston Bulldogs during the 1929 season.[1]

Towle was later inducted into the Brown Athletics Hall of Fame.[6]

Towle died in 1960 at age 46.[7]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Thurston Towle". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 21, 2022.
  2. ^ Farber's Fame Archived 2008-08-21 at the Wayback Machine, Brown Alumni Magazine, January/February 2002.
  3. ^ "Star Wing Man on Brown's 1926 Football Team to Aid McLaughry: Thurston Towle of "Iron Man" Eleven To Coach Brown Ends". The Boston Globe. September 7, 1928. p. 29 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Thurston Towle Made Coach of Brown Ends". The Hartford Courant. July 18, 1930. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Hodge and Towle Resign Coaching Jobs At Brown". The Hartford Courant. December 29, 1935. p. 29 – via Newspaper.com.
  6. ^ http://www.brownbears.com/sports/m-footbl/125th-football/hof.html[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ "Thurston Towle Dead, Ex-Brown 'Iron Man'". Alabama Journal. October 20, 1960. p. 35 – via Newspapers.com.