Rollie Williams
American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach
Intro | American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach | |
Places | United States of America | |
was | Sports coach Basketball coach American football player | |
Work field | Sports | |
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Birth | 11 October 1897 | |
Death | 1968 (aged 70 years) |
Rolland Franklin "Rollie" Williams (October 11, 1897 – April 1968) was a player in the National Football League for the Racine Legion in 1923. He played at the collegiate level at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, also playing baseball and basketball.
Williams was born in Edgerton, Wisconsin. He was inducted in the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame in 1960. He later coached football at Millikin University (1923) and basketball at the University of Iowa (1930–42, 1951).