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14 lug 2007 · Marion Motley was born June 5, 1920, in Leesburg, Georgia. Motley played football at Canton McKinley High School in Canton, Ohio, and went on to South Carolina State University and then to the University of Nevada, where he played football while participating in other collegiate sports such as track, throwing javelin, and boxing.
7 set 2018 · Marion Motley – Fullback When Paul Brown signed Marion Motley in the Browns' first training camp in 1946, it was initially to give African-American Bill Willis, whom the head coach had just ...
26 lug 2016 · Cleveland Brown's fullback Marion Motley comes in as the 74th best player in NFL history on NFL Film's "The Top 100: NFL's Greatest Players" list (2010).
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Marion Motley (5 de junio de 1920-27 de junio de 1999) fue un jugador de fútbol americano.Jugó como fullback para los Cleveland Browns y los Pittsburgh Steelers.. Motley asistió a la escuela Canton McKinley High School en Canton, Ohio y fue a estudiar a la South Carolina State University y a la Universidad de Nevada en Reno; Motley se unió a la Armada de los Estados Unidos (no terminó la ...
Marion Motley (June 5, 1920 - June 27, 1999) was a professional football player, a fullback for the Cleveland Browns, and briefly for the Pittsburgh Steelers. [1] Motley attended high school at Canton McKinley High School in Canton, Ohio, and played college football at South Carolina State and three seasons at Nevada [2]. As a punishing fullback for the Wolf Pack, Motley played several games ...
Marion Motley was both a trailblazer and one of the all-time greats. After helping reintegrate pro football in 1946 as part of the Forgotten Four, Motley embarked on a Hall of Fame career that helped the Cleveland Browns become one of the top teams of his era.
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In 1946, Marion Motley was one of four African American men to break pro football's color barrier when he joined the Cleveland Browns. Those men's efforts to play a physically brutal game in the face of societal racism and state-sanctioned Jim Crow laws trailblazed a path for Black athletes in the highest echelons of professional sports, including baseball's Jackie Robinson.
