Charlie Timmons
.png) Timmons at Clemson in 1941 | |||||||
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| Position: | Fullback | ||||||
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| Born: | February 8, 1917 Piedmont, South Carolina | ||||||
| Died: | March 27, 1996 (aged 79) Greenville, South Carolina | ||||||
| Height: | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||||||
| Weight: | 210 lb (95 kg) | ||||||
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| High school: | Abbeville (SC) | ||||||
| College: | Clemson Georgia | ||||||
| NFL draft: | 1942 / Round: 19 / Pick: 176 (by the Washington Redskins) | ||||||
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Charles Truman Timmons (February 8, 1917–March 27, 1996) was an American football fullback in the All-America Football Conference for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He played college football at the University of Georgia and Clemson College; as a sophomore at the 1940 Cotton Bowl, he rushed for 127 yards and scored the only touchdown in the 6–3 Clemson win.[1][2]
Timmons was selected in the nineteenth round of the 1942 NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins, but instead joined the U.S. Navy. During training, he played for the Georgia Pre-Flight Skycrackers football team.[3] Following the war, he joined his family's insurance business in Greenville, South Carolina,[4] where Furman University's Timmons Arena is named for him and his family.[5]
References
- ^ Snider, Steve (January 2, 1940). "Cotton Bowl game costly". Reading Eagle. (Pennsylvania). United Press. p. 14.
- ^ "Clemson upsets Boston College". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. January 2, 1940. p. 2.
- ^ Jones, Wilbur D., Jr. (2009). "Football! Navy! War!" how military "lend-lease" players saved the college game and helped win World War II. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. p. 69. ISBN 0786454164.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Jackson, Sherry (February 28, 2014). "'A Wheels Business'". Upstate Business Journal. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
- ^ Shi, David Emory (2002). The Bell Tower and Beyond. Columbia, SC: Univ. of South Carolina Press. pp. 39–41. ISBN 1570034664.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from NFL.com · Pro Football Reference
- Charlie Timmons at Find a Grave
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