Bernard "Boob" Darling (November 18, 1903 – March 5, 1968) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

player. He played his entire five-year career with the

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and was inducted into the

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in 1970. Bernard received his nickname from his younger sister who always called him 'Booboo' which was eventually shortened to just 'Boob'. Darling died at Milwaukee in March 1968, of cancer. He is the younger brother of

Lon Darling Alonzo Lewis "Lon" Darling (June 25, 1902 – April 19, 1951) was an early influencer in American professional basketball, having created the barnstorming team the Oshkosh All-Stars, is credited with being the organizer of the National Basketball ...

, a pioneer in early professional basketball in the United States and founder of the National Basketball League.

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