Alex Drobnitch | |
Position: | Guard |
Birth Date: | 25 November 1913 |
Birth Place: | Colorado, U.S. |
Death Place: | Greeley, Colorado, U.S. |
Weight Lbs: | 189 [1] |
College: | Denver |
Draftyear: | 1937 |
Draftround: | 5 |
Draftpick: | 41 |
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Alex Lewis Drobnitch (November 25, 1913 – June 6, 1960) was an American football player. Drobntich was raised on a farm near Eaton, Colorado. He played college football for the Denver Pioneers football team and was selected by the Newspaper Enterprise Association as a first-team guard on the 1936 College Football All-America Team.[2] [3] He was drafted in the fifth round of the 1937 NFL Draft.[4] He later played professional football for the New York Yanks in 1937, the Buffalo Indians in 1940, and the New York Americans in 1941.[5] He was inducted into the University of Denver Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996.[6]