Bob Foxx Explained

Bob Foxx
Currentposition:	Halfback
Birth Date:	September 15, 1917
Birth Place:	Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
Heightft:	5
Heightin:	11
Weight:	185
School:	Tennessee Volunteers
Pastschools:	Tennessee (1938–1940)
Highlights:	Second-team All-American (1940) Co-SEC Player of the Year (1939) 2× First-team All-SEC (1939, 1940)

Robert Morgan Foxx (September 15, 1917 – June 22, 1975) was an American football player. He played college football for the Tennessee Volunteers football team from 1938 to 1940 and was selected by the International News Service as a second-team player on the 1940 College Football All-America Team.^[1] In a poll of Knoxville Journal readers, Foxx was voted Knoxville's greatest athlete of the first half of the 20th century.^[2]

Foxx was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in 1968.^[3] He played minor league baseball in 1941.^[4] He also was hired as an assistant football coach at Tennessee in 1941.^{[5] [6]}

External links

• • Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame bio

Notes and References

1. News: December 3, 1940 . Michigan, Minnesota Dominate All-America . February 25, 2024 . St. Petersburg Times . Google News.
2. Web site: Bob Foxx – Football . February 25, 2024 . University of Tennessee Athletics . en.
3. Web site: Bob Foxx . February 3, 2015 . Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame.
4. Web site: Bob Foxx Minor League Statistics . February 3, 2015 . Baseball-Reference.com . Sports Reference LLC.
5. News: May 9, 1941 . Pick Bob Foxx as Tennessee Football Aid . Chicago Tribune.
6. News: May 9, 1941 . Bob Foxx To Help Tennessee Coach . The Milwaukee Journal . Google News.