Glenn Dobbs Top Tulsa Tailback

July 12, 1920 - McKinney, Texas - Glenn Dobbs is a football player who was voted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1980 as a halfback out of the University of Tulsa. Dobbs' career with the Golden Hurricane spanned from 1940 through the 1942 season, according to the National Football Foundation.

Glenn was a first-team All-America selection as a senior as he led the nation with a .626 completion rate during that 1942 campaign. Opposing coach Jimmy Phelan called Dobbs football's first "Quad" back - able to pass, punt, run with the ball, and defend against the opposition.

Dobbs went on to play professionally in the All-American Football Conference (AAFC) with the Brooklyn Dodgers football team and he was the MVP of that League in 1946. An injury forced him to sit out the 1950 season. Still, he returned to the field in a league that was the predecessor of the CFL, called the Western Interprovincial Football Union (WIFU), before his full retirement from playing. Dobbs returned to Tulsa to become the University's Head Coach in the 1960s.