1. Robert George Cowan was an American football halfback who played three seasons in the All-America Football Conference between 1947 and 1949.
21 Facts About Bob Cowan
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Bob Cowan played for the Cleveland Browns and the Baltimore Colts.
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Bob Cowan was a standout track and football athlete at his Fort Wayne, Indiana high school.
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Bob Cowan attended Indiana University and starred as a halfback for two years, interrupted by service in the Army Air Force during World War II.
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Bob Cowan joined the Browns in 1947, when the team won the AAFC championship.
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Bob Cowan was sent to the Colts for the 1949 season, but he was slowed by a knee injury and left the game a year later.
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Bob Cowan became a high school principal in Fort Wayne after his playing career.
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Bob Cowan grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and was a star athlete at the city's North Side High School.
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Bob Cowan failed to place first just once in the 220-yard dash during his high school track career.
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Bob Cowan came in second in his only loss at a state track meet in his sophomore year.
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Bob Cowan had times of 9.9 seconds in the 100-yard dash, under 22 seconds in the 220 and 49 seconds in the 440.
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Bob Cowan became the football team's starting right halfback in the middle of the following year, his sophomore season.
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Bob Cowan played basketball at Indiana, and was spotted during a state tournament in 1941 by Blanton Collier, who went on to become an assistant coach for the Cleveland Browns of the All-America Football Conference.
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Bob Cowan joined the Army Air Force in 1943 and served in World War II as part of the ground crew at various military bases and at Okinawa.
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Bob Cowan played in 1944 for the service basketball team at a Salt Lake City, Utah base called the Air Base Wings.
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Bob Cowan was selected by the Chicago Cardinals in the 1945 NFL draft.
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Bob Cowan won a spot on the roster alongside fellow Fort Wayne native and Indiana graduate Bill Boedeker.
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Bob Cowan lost his job as the starting right halfback late in the season to Dub Jones.
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Bob Cowan was sent to the Baltimore Colts before the 1949 season.
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Bothered by a knee injury, Bob Cowan left football after a year in Baltimore.
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Bob Cowan returned to Fort Wayne after his playing career and became a high school principal.