Len Eshmont
Appearance
Personal information | |
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Born: | Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania | August 26, 1917
Died: | May 12, 1957 Charlottesville, Virginia | (aged 39)
Career information | |
College: | Fordham |
Position: | Running back Defensive back |
NFL draft: | 1941 / Round: 5 / Pick: 36 |
Career history | |
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Leonard Charles Eshmont (August 26, 1917 – May 12, 1957) was an American football running back and defensive back for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). Eshmont scored the first touchdown in 49ers history. He was drafted out of Fordham University by the New York Giants in the 1941 NFL Draft.
He served as an assistant football coach at Virginia.[1]
Eshmont died in 1957 of infectious hepatitis. The 49ers created The Len Eshmont Award, the team's most prestigious annual honor, which is given to the Niner who best exemplifies the "inspirational and courageous play" of Len Eshmont, a player from the original 1946 Forty Niners team.
See also
References
- ^ LEN ESHMONT, 39, EX-FOOTBALL STAR; Halfback With Fordham and the Forty-Niners Is Dead -- College Coaching Aide Leading Ground-Gainer, The New York Times, May 13, 1957.
Categories:
- 1917 births
- 1957 deaths
- American football running backs
- American football defensive backs
- New York Giants players
- Fordham Rams football players
- Navy Midshipmen football coaches
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- San Francisco 49ers (AAFC) players
- Virginia Cavaliers football coaches
- People from Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania
- Players of American football from Pennsylvania
- Deaths from hepatitis
- Infectious disease deaths in Virginia
- American football running back, 1910s birth stubs
- American football defensive back, pre-1930 birth stubs