Thurston Towle | |
Birth Place: | Pawtucket, Rhode Island, U.S. |
Death Place: | Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
Height Ft: | 5 |
Height In: | 10 |
Weight Lbs: | 160 |
Position: | End |
College: | Brown University |
Pfr: | TowlTh20 |
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Edward Thurston Towle (January 1, 1905 - October 19, 1960) was an American football player.
Towle was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in 1905 and attended the Moses Brown School in Providence. He then attended Brown University.[1] He played for the 1926 Brown Bears football team that compiled a 9–0–1 and became known as the "Iron Men" due to playing without substitution in key games. Towle played all but two minutes against Yale, Dartmouth, and Harvard.[2]
He was hired as Brown's ends coach in the fall of 1928.[3] He continued in that post at least through the 1935 season.[4] [5]
He also played one game in the National Football League (NFL) with the Boston Bulldogs during the 1929 season.[1]
Towle was later inducted into the Brown Athletics Hall of Fame.[6]
Towle died in 1960 at age 46.[7]