Edward Thurston Towle (January 1, 1905 – October 19, 1960) 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 wi ...

player. Towle was born in

Pawtucket, Rhode Island Pawtucket is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 75,604 at the 2020 census, making the city the fourth-largest in the state. Pawtucket borders Providence and East Providence to the south, Central Fal ...

, in 1905 and attended the

Moses Brown School Moses Brown School is an independent Quaker school located in Providence, Rhode Island, offering pre-kindergarten through secondary school classes. It was founded in 1784 by Moses Brown, a Quaker abolitionist, and is one of the oldest prepara ...

in Providence. He then attended Brown University. He played for the

1926 Brown Bears football team The 1926 Brown Bears football team, often called "the Iron Men", represented Brown University in 1926 college football season. They were led by first-year head coach Tuss McLaughry. The Bears compiled a 9–0–1 record, outscored their opponen ...

that compiled a 9–0–1 and became known as the "Iron Men" due to playing without substitution in key games. Towle played all but two minutes against Yale, Dartmouth, and Harvard. He was hired as Brown's ends coach in the fall of 1928. He continued in that post at least through the 1935 season. He also played one game in the

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(NFL) with the Boston Bulldogs during the 1929 season. Towle was later inducted into the Brown Athletics Hall of Fame. Towle died in 1960 at age 46.

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1905 births 1960 deaths American football ends Boston Bulldogs (NFL) players Brown Bears football players Sportspeople from Pawtucket, Rhode Island Players of American football from Rhode Island {{Amfoot-bio-stub