Position: | Guard |
Birth Date: | 7 August 1899 |
Birth Place: | Columbus, Ohio, U.S. |
Death Place: | Columbus, Ohio, U.S. |
Height Ft: | 6 |
Height In: | 0 |
Weight Lbs: | 205 |
College: | Ohio State |
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Thomas Noble Long Jr. (August 7, 1899 – July 22, 1969) was an American football player.
Long was born in 1899 in Columbus, Ohio.[1] He attended Ohio State University where he studied mechanical engineering. He played as a guard for the Ohio State Buckeyes football team from 1921 to 1923 and was named to the All-Western football team.[2]
He played professional football as a guard in the National Football League (NFL) for the Columbus Tigers in 1925. He appeared in seven NFL games, one as a starter.[3] He also played for Jim Thorpe's Hocking Valley team of Columbus in 1927.[4] He also played for the Columbus Tigers in 1928, though the Tigers were no longer members of the NFL that year.[5]
Long later worked as an engineer for a gas company. He died in 1969 in Columbus.[3]