Buddy Tinsley
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Date of birth | August 16, 1924 |
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Place of birth | Damon, Texas |
Date of death | September 14, 2011 (aged 87) |
Place of death | Winnipeg, Manitoba |
Career information | |
CFL status | National |
Position(s) | DT |
US 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 | |
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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.
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
Categories:
- 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
- Los Angeles Dons players
- People from Brazoria County, Texas
- Winnipeg Blue Bombers players
- Disease-related deaths in Manitoba
- Grey Cup champions
- American football offensive lineman, 1920s birth stubs