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Born: | Sisseton, South Dakota, U.S. | July 8, 1907||
Died: | August 9, 1978 Naples, Florida, U.S. | (aged 71)||
Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||
Weight: | 226 lb (103 kg) | ||
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College: | Purdue | ||
Position: | Tackle | ||
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Elmer Noble "Red" Sleight (1907 - August 9, 1978) was an All-American football player.
Sleight was born in 1907 in Morris, Illinois, and attended Morris High School. [1]
He played at the tackle position for the Purdue University Boilermakers from 1927 to 1929. [1] He was a consensus first-team player on the 1929 All-America college football team, receiving first-team honors from the Associated Press, Collier's Weekly, International News Service an All-America Board. [2] He also received the Western Conference medal for proficiency in scholarship and athletics and was one of 11 All-American football players to appear in the 1930 film " Maybe It's Love". [3] [4]
He played professionally for the Green Bay Packers in 1930 and 1931. [5] He appeared in 26 NFL games for the Packers, 19 of them as a starter. [1]
After his playing career ended, Sleight held assistant coaching positions at Missouri and then Lehigh. [6] [7] He later went into marketing in Chicago. He moved to Naples, Florida, after retiring. He died in Naples in 1978 at age 71. [8]