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Marion Motley ( Leesburg, 5 giugno 1920 – Cleveland, 27 giugno 1999) è stato un giocatore di football americano statunitense che ha giocato nei ruoli di fullback e linebacker per i Cleveland Browns nella All-America Football Conference (AAFC) e nella National Football League (NFL). Fu uno dei migliori corridori e bloccatori tra la fine degli ...
28 giu 1999 · Marion Motley, one of the National Football League's first black players of the modern era and one of its best fullbacks ever, died yesterday in Cleveland. He was 79.
Gifted football star Marion Motley was one of pro football’s first black players. In 1946, Motley was one of four African American men to break pro football’s color barrier when he joined the ...
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 ...
11 giu 2020 · Motley’s Retirement and Influence on the Game of Football. If one were to add Motley’s career totals in the NFL with his numbers in the AAFC, he retired with 4,720 yards rushing (5.7 ypc) and 31 touchdowns. His rushing total would put him at number six all time on the Browns rushing list if his AAFC yards were counted.
3 apr 2024 · 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.
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.
