Thomas Joseph O'Boyle was an American football player, coach, scout, and college athletics administrator.
10 Facts About Tommy O'Boyle
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Tommy O'Boyle later worked an assistant coach and scout for the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League and the National Football League.
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Tommy O'Boyle was born on August 21,1917, in Fort Dodge, Iowa, and was raised in Gary, Indiana.
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Tommy O'Boyle attended Tulane University and played college football for the Green Wave as a guard from 1938 to 1940.
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Tommy O'Boyle was selected by Chicago Bears in the sixth round of the 1941 NFL draft, but remained at Tulane in 1941 as an assistant coach.
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Tommy O'Boyle served in the United States Navy during World War II and returned to Tulane as an assistant coach in 1946.
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In 1947, Tommy O'Boyle was hired as head football coach and athletic director at Southwest Missouri State College.
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Tommy O'Boyle worked as an assistant football coach at Kansas State University from 1949 to 1950, at Duke University from 1951 to 1958, and at the University of Miami from 1959 to 1960, before returning once more to his alma mater, in 1961.
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Tommy O'Boyle remained a coach with the team through their merger into the National Football League until the end of the 1974 season.
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Tommy O'Boyle retired to Greensboro, North Carolina, where he died on July 19,2000.