Elmer Sleight

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Elmer Sleight
Personal information
Born:(1907-07-08)July 8, 1907
Sisseton, South Dakota, U.S.
Died:August 9, 1978(1978-08-09) (aged 71)
Naples, Florida, U.S.
Height:6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight:226 lb (103 kg)
Career information
College: Purdue
Position:Tackle
Career history
Career highlights and awards
Career NFL statistics
Games played:26

Elmer Noble "Red" Sleight (1907 - August 9, 1978) was an All-American football player.

Sleight was born in 1907 in Morris, Illinois, and attended Morris High School. [1]

He played at the tackle position for the Purdue University Boilermakers from 1927 to 1929. [1] He was a consensus first-team player on the 1929 All-America college football team, receiving first-team honors from the Associated Press, Collier's Weekly , International News Service an All-America Board. [2] He also received the Western Conference medal for proficiency in scholarship and athletics and was one of 11 All-American football players to appear in the 1930 film "Maybe It's Love". [3] [4]

He played professionally for the Green Bay Packers in 1930 and 1931. [5] He appeared in 26 NFL games for the Packers, 19 of them as a starter. [1]

After his playing career ended, Sleight held assistant coaching positions at Missouri and then Lehigh. [6] [7] He later went into marketing in Chicago. He moved to Naples, Florida, after retiring. He died in Naples in 1978 at age 71. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Elmer Sleight". Pro Football Archives. Retrieved April 8, 2022.
  2. ↑ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 7. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Elmer Sleight Gets Conference Medal". The Minneapolis Tribune. June 11, 1930. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Maybe It's Love". American Film Institute .
  5. ↑ "Boilermakers in the Pros" Archived 1999-11-28 at the Wayback Machine . Purdue Official Athletic Site. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
  6. ↑ "Sleight, Huff, Edwards and Fisher Stay". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. March 21, 1934. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Elmer Sleight Is Added to Lehigh U. Grid Staff". Berwick Enterprise. June 5, 1936. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Purdue All-American Sleight Dies at 71". The Naples Daily News. August 9, 1978. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
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