Bob Lang | |
Birth Date: | 1 October 1892 |
Birth Place: | Waverly, Georgia, U.S. |
Death Place: | Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
Class: | Graduate |
Weight Lb: | 192 |
Currentposition: | Guard |
School: | Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets |
Pastschools: | Georgia Tech (1913 - 1916) |
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Robert McDonnell "Bob" Lang (October 1, 1892 - September 19, 1966)[1] was a college football player.
Before attending Tech Lang went to the old South Georgia College in McRae.[2]
Lang was a prominent guard for John Heisman's Georgia Tech Golden Tornado of the Georgia Institute of Technology,[3] a member of its "All-Era" team under Heisman.[4]
The school's yearbook the Blue Print of 1915 describes Lang as "one of the biggest men on the varsity, not only in stature but in spirit as well."[2]
Lang was a starter for the 1916 Georgia Tech team which, as one writer wrote, "seemed to personify Heisman."[5] That team defeated Cumberland 222 to 0. He anchored the line along with Walker Carpenter and Pup Phillips.