Darrell Tully
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Position: | Back | ||||||||||
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Born: | Henryetta, Oklahoma, U.S. | December 14, 1917||||||||||
Died: | February 4, 1997 Harris County, Texas, U.S. | (aged 79)||||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||||
Weight: | 200 lb (91 kg) | ||||||||||
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High school: | Eastland (Eastland, Texas) | ||||||||||
College: | East Texas | ||||||||||
NFL draft: | 1939 / Round: 7 / Pick: 57 | ||||||||||
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Darrell Dean Tully (December 14, 1917 – February 4, 1997) was an American football player and coach. He played college football at East Texas. A seventh round selection in the 1939 NFL draft, Tully played one season for the Detroit Lions.[1] Tully was head football coach and athletic director at Spring Branch High School from 1957 until 1964. In 1964 Tully became full-time athletic director for the Spring Branch Independent School District and remained in that capacity until his retirement in 1978. The 15,000-capacity Darrell Tully Stadium in Houston, Texas is named in his honor.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "1939 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved March 27, 2023.
- ^ "Spring Branch ISD Facilities". Archived from the original on October 5, 2007. Retrieved October 3, 2007.
Categories:
- 1917 births
- 1997 deaths
- American football halfbacks
- Detroit Lions players
- Georgia Pre-Flight Skycrackers football players
- Texas A&M–Commerce Lions football players
- Texas A&M–Commerce Lions men's basketball players
- Texas A&M–Commerce Lions men's basketball coaches
- College men's basketball head coaches in the United States
- High school football coaches in Texas
- People from Eastland, Texas
- People from Henryetta, Oklahoma
- Players of American football from Texas
- American football running back, 1910s birth stubs