25 Facts About Tiny Maxwell

Robert Wallace "Tiny" Maxwell was a professional football player and referee.

Tiny Maxwell was a sports editor with the Philadelphia Public Ledger.

Tiny Maxwell is known to have had a sister named Katerine Doust at the time of his death.

Tiny Maxwell played the mandolin and was a student actor in the school's Shakespearean plays.

Tiny Maxwell played for the Maroons in 1902, under coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, who recruited Maxwell for his size and style of play.

Tiny Maxwell weighed 240 pounds, in an era when the average offensive lineman weighed under 200 pounds.

Tiny Maxwell played guard for the Maroons in 1902 and 1903.

Tiny Maxwell competed for the school as a boxer and in track and field, later set the school's record in the hammer throw.

However Tiny Maxwell reportedly continue to play until near the end of the game, when his face was so bloody and swollen that he could no longer see, yet he never complained of the physical beating.

Several writers and scholars have made exhaustive searches for the photo of Tiny Maxwell's battered face, but none has ever been found.

Tiny Maxwell lacked the authority to abolish football and was in fact, a fan of the game.

In 1906 Tiny Maxwell was a figure in a betting scandal between the Massillon Tigers and the Canton Bulldogs.

Tiny Maxwell's accusation was that an attempt had been made to bribe some Massillion players before the first game.

Tiny Maxwell and Shiring then reported the offer to the Tigers' manager and the scandal ended before it began.

In 1909, Tiny Maxwell became an assistant coach for Swarthmore College.

Tiny Maxwell later accepted an assistant coaching job at Penn.

Walter Camp later said that Tiny Maxwell set the standard for fairness and competence.

Lou Little, a Penn tackle who later coached at Georgetown and Columbia, said Tiny Maxwell alone prevented an open riot.

In 1921, Tiny Maxwell served as the referee for a game between the Union Quakers of Philadelphia and the pre-National Football League, Frankford Yellow Jackets.

Two years later Tiny Maxwell became sports editor of the Public Ledger, a position he held until his death.

Tiny Maxwell's column was reported as being stylish and good humored.

In friendly bet between Record Herald and a rival newspaper, Tiny Maxwell defeated his colleague in an eating contest.

Tiny Maxwell spent the next few days in a hospital located in Norristown, Pennsylvania, where he was suffering from seven broken ribs, a punctured lung and a dislocated hip.

Tiny Maxwell agreed and he drifted off to sleep where he later died.

Tiny Maxwell was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1974.