Abe Gibron
Abraham Gibron played 11 seasons as a guard in the All-America Football Conference and National Football League in the 1940s and 1950s. He was named to the Pro Bowl, the NFL’s all-star game, each year between 1952 and 1955. Gibron went on to become an assistant coach for the Washington Redskins and Chicago Bears before becoming head coach of the Bears between 1972 and 1974. He remained close to the game by serving as a scout for the Seattle Seahawks in the late 1980s and as an advisor to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the early 1990s.
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Abraham Gibron played 11 seasons as a guard in the All-America Football Conference and National Football League in the 1940s and 1950s. He was named to the Pro Bowl, the NFL’s all-star game, each year between 1952 and 1955. Gibron went on to become an assistant coach for the Washington Redskins and Chicago Bears before becoming head coach of the Bears between 1972 and 1974. He died after suffering a series of strokes in 1997, but remained close to the game by serving as a scout for the Seattle Seahawks in the late 1980s and as an advisor to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the early 1990s. The NFL’s New York Giants also selected Gibron in the sixth round of the 1949 draft, but he chose to play for the Bills instead. The AAFC organized the draft for players expected to graduate in 1949 so that its teams could begin wooing their selections before the rival NFL had its draft the following year. The league dissolved after that season, however, and Gibron moved to the Browns in the NFL. In 1950, Gibron was selected as a second-team All-Pro by the AAFC’s defunct teams – including the Bills, Baltimore Colts and Baltimore Colts – and went into a dispersal draft, where he was selected by the Browns, 49ers and San Francisco 49ers. He also played for the Chicago Winds, a team in the short-lived World Football League, the same year as his AAFC career began.
He spent seven seasons as an assistant with the Buccaneers before retiring from coaching in the mid-1980s. His teams posted a combined win–loss–tie record of 11–30–1 over three seasons. The playoff record held at the end of the season was 6–5–2, with Gibron’s Bills the last-ranked team in a four-team playoff. The Bills lost in the first round of its first round to the Cleveland Browns, and subsequently lost to Chicago in a third place game for third place for the third year in a row. The Browns were absorbed into the NFL after the season, and the Colts and 49ers were absorbed by the NFL, but Gibron remained with the Browns until his retirement in the 1990s, when he was named an advisor for the Buccaneers. He played college football for two years at Valparaiso University in Indiana and was an All-Big Ten Conference guard and an honorable mention Little College All-American. After graduating, he spent two years in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, and then transferred to Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana in 1946. He served in the military as the war ended in 1945, but left the military in 1946 and played his freshman year of college.
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