American football player
.png) Timmons at Clemson in 1941 | |||||||||
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| Position: | Fullback | ||||||||
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| Born: | (1917-02-08)February 8, 1917 Piedmont, South Carolina, U.S. | ||||||||
| Died: | March 27, 1996(1996-03-27) (aged 79) Greenville, South Carolina, U.S. | ||||||||
| 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 (AAFC) 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.
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.
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 978-0-7864-5416-7.
External links
- Career statistics from NFL.com · Pro Football Reference
- Charlie Timmons at Find a Grave
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- 1917 births
- 1996 deaths
- American football fullbacks
- Brooklyn Dodgers (AAFC) players
- Clemson Tigers football players
- Georgia Pre-Flight Skycrackers football players
- People from Piedmont, South Carolina
- United States Navy personnel of World War II
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American football running back, 1910s birth stubs