LINFIELD COLLEGE’S HOWARD GLENN: The first former Linfield College football player to play professional football and the first AFL/American Football League player to die from injuries sustained in a regular season football game.
=Born Sept. 26, 1934 in
Louisville, Winston County, and Mississippi.
=Died at age 26 on Oct. 9,
1960, in Houston, Harris County,
Texas.
Howard Glenn had connections
to:
--Mississippi, where he was
born, grew up, and graduated from high school …
--Vancouver, Wash., where he
lived and attended two-year Clark College and was a track & field athlete; Clark
didn't have football when he attended …
--Aberdeen, Wash., where he
attended and played football for two-year Grays Harbor College …
--McMinnville, Ore., where he attended Linfield College, and played football and participated as a track & field athlete ... Glenn lettered playing football for Linfield in the 1955, 1956 and 1957 seasons ...
--Hamilton, Ontario, Canada,
where he played for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the professional CFL/Canadian
Football League
--New York City, where he
played for the American Football League's New York Titans. (That team is now
the New York Jets of the NFL/National Football League.) He was injured playing for the
Titans in a game on Oct 9, 1960, in Houston, Texas, against the AFL Houston
Oilers. Later he was taken to a Houston hospital where he died. (The Houston team is now the Tennessee Titans of the NFL/National Football League.)
READ about Howard Glenn:
http://wildcatville.blogspot.com/2018/07/howard-glennfootball-player-louisville.html
SEE PHOTOS of Howard Glenn:
http://wildcatville.blogspot.com/2018/07/late-1950s-howard-glenn-linfield.html
READ "The Tragedy of
Howard Glenn:”
https://talesfromtheamericanfootballleague.com/the-tragedy-of-howard-glenn
