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Marion Motley (born June 5, 1920, Leesburg, Georgia, U.S.—died June 27, 1999, Cleveland, Ohio) was an African American gridiron football player who helped desegregate professional football in the 1940s during a career that earned him induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1968.
Jul 22, 2021 · Marion Motley was a trailblazer. He was also a punishing runner, an adept blocker and player gifted and instinctive enough to excel on both sides of the ball. In his autobiography, legendary...
Jun 28, 1999 · Marion Motley, one of the National Football League's first black players of the modern era and one of its best fullbacks ever, died yesterday in Cleveland. He was 79.
In 1946, Canton native Marion Motley was one of four African American men to break pro football’s color barrier when he joined the Cleveland Browns. This local production tells the Canton...
Marion Motley – Fullback. When Paul Brown signed Marion Motley in the Browns' first training camp in 1946, it was initially to give African-American Bill Willis, whom the head coach had...
Marion Motley's story of adversity, personal tragedy and triumph as a pro football player. Lines Broken: The Story of Marion Motley is presented by your local public television station.
This production tells Motley’s story of adversity, personal tragedy and triumphs using rarely heard archival interviews and new interviews with historians, friends and descendants. Premiered on PBS Western Reserve in 2021.
