Bob Trocolor
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| Position: | Head Coach Quarterback / Halfback | ||||
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| Born: | March 31, 1917 Oak Hill, Texas, U.S. | ||||
| Died: | July 27, 1984 (aged 67) Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, U.S. | ||||
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| College: | Long Island, Alabama | ||||
| Undrafted: | 1942 | ||||
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| Playing career
Coaching career
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Robert G. "Bob" Trocolor (March 31, 1917 – July 27, 1984) was an American football player and coach. He was also a college basketball and football head coach as well as movie actor.
Football career
Player
Trocolor played college football for the Long Island Blackbirds before transferring to play for the Alabama Crimson Tide. He then went undrafted in 1942 but eventually landed a spot with the National Football League's New York Giants, for whom he played for two seasons as a substitute quarterback, punt returner and halfback. In 1944, Trocolor was traded to the Brooklyn Tigers and played in two games. The team merged with the Boston Yanks in 1945, but Trocolor did not get picked up, so his professional football career ended after three seasons.
Coach
In 1974, Trocolor became the third head football coach in William Paterson University Pioneers football program history. He served for just one year and compiled a 2–7 overall record (1–4 conference).
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | Rank# | |||
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| William Paterson Pioneers (NJAC) (1974) | |||||||||
| 1974 | William Paterson | 2–7 | 1–4 | ||||||
| Total: | 2–7 | ||||||||
| National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth | |||||||||
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Basketball head coach
Trocolor was chosen as the 12th head coach in Stetson University's men's basketball program history. Similar to his brief stint as a college football coach, he only stayed for one year—the 1949–50 season—before moving on. In his lone season as the Hatters' head coach he compiled a 6–16 record.
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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| Stetson Hatters (Independent) (1949–1950) | |||||||||
| 1949–50 | Stetson | 6–16 | |||||||
| Total: | 6–16 | ||||||||
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National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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Acting
Bob Trocolor is an officially credited movie actor. In the 1953 film Big Leaguer, he plays himself. The movie is about a group of 18- to 22-year-old men who are trying out for a Major League Baseball team, and he is one of the players.
External links
- Career information from Databasefootball; NFL; PFR; NJ.com
- Bob Trocolor at IMDb
- 1917 births
- 1984 deaths
- 20th-century American male actors
- Alabama Crimson Tide football players
- Brooklyn Tigers players
- Long Island Blackbirds football players
- New York Giants players
- Stetson Hatters football coaches
- Stetson Hatters men's basketball coaches
- William Paterson Pioneers football coaches
- Undrafted National Football League players
- American military personnel of World War II
- People from Franklin Lakes, New Jersey
- Male actors from Texas
- Players of American football from Texas