Adrian Maurer

Adrian Maurer
Position: Running back
Personal information
Date of birth: (1901-04-07)April 7, 1901
Place of birth: Canton, Ohio
Date of death: May 4, 1943(1943-05-04) (aged 42)
Place of death: San Francisco, California
Height: 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Weight: 185 lb (84 kg)
Career information
College: Oglethorpe
Career history
Career highlights and awards

Championships

Honors

  • All-SIAA (1923)
  • second-team All-Southern (1923, 1925)
  • Oglethorpe University Athletic Hall of Fame

Adrian Harold "Sparky" Maurer (April 7, 1901 May 4, 1943) was an American football player.

Oglethorpe University

He played college football as a running back for the Oglethorpe Stormy Petrels football team of Oglethorpe University. He was inducted into the Oglethorpe University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1962.[1][2]

1923

Maurer was selected second-team All-Southern by Julian Leggett of the Macon News,[3] and first team All-Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) by various writers including Morgan Blake.[3]

1924

He was captain of the 1924 team which won the SIAA championship.

1925

The 1925 team was again SIAA champion.[4]

Newark Bears

He played professionally with the Newark Bears.[5] The Bears are remembered for the team's financially weak ownership group, which led to the folding of the team mid-season.[6] The team played only five games before folding in October.

References

  1. "Adrian Maurer". Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  2. "Oglethorpe Athletic Hall of Fame". Retrieved February 24, 2015.
  3. 1 2 "The Telegraph's All-Southern". Mercer Cluster. December 7, 1923. pp. 3; 6.
  4. "The Flight of the Stormy Petrel". Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  5. "Adrian Maurer". Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  6. David S. Neft, Richard M. Cohen and Rick Korch, The Football Encyclopedia: The Complete History of Professional Football, From 1892 to the Present, St. Martin's Press, New York, New York (1994).
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