Thurston Towle

Thurston Towle

Profile
Position	End
Personal information
Born	(1905-01-01)January 1, 1905 Pawtucket, Rhode Island, U.S.
Died	October 19, 1960(1960-10-19) (aged 55) Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight	160 lb (73 kg)
Career information
College	Brown University
Career history
Boston Bulldogs (1929)
Stats at Pro Football Reference

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]

References

1. "Thurston Towle". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 21, 2022.
2. Farber's Fame Archived 2008-08-21 at the Wayback Machine , Brown Alumni Magazine, January/February 2002.
3. "Star Wing Man on Brown's 1926 Football Team to Aid McLaughry: Thurston Towle of "Iron Man" Eleven To Coach Brown Ends". The Boston Globe. September 7, 1928. p. 29 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "Thurston Towle Made Coach of Brown Ends". The Hartford Courant. July 18, 1930. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Hodge and Towle Resign Coaching Jobs At Brown". The Hartford Courant. December 29, 1935. p. 29 – via Newspaper.com.
6. http://www.brownbears.com/sports/m-footbl/125th-football/hof.html%5B%5D
7. "Thurston Towle Dead, Ex-Brown 'Iron Man'". Alabama Journal. October 20, 1960. p. 35 – via Newspapers.com.