Bob Tucker (American football)

Bob Tucker
No. 38
PositionTight end
Personal information
Born (1945-06-08) June 8, 1945
Hazleton, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Listed height6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Listed weight230 lb (104 kg)
Career information
High schoolHazleton, Pennsylvania[1]
CollegeBloomsburg
NFL draft1968: undrafted
Career history
Awards and highlights
Career NFL statistics
Receptions422
Receiving yards5,421
Receiving TDs27
Stats at Pro Football Reference

Robert Louis Tucker (born June 8, 1945) is an American former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL). A 6'3", 230 lb. tight end from Bloomsburg State College, Tucker played for 11 seasons in the NFL, from 1970 to 1977 for the New York Giants and 1977 to 1980 for the Minnesota Vikings.

In 1971 Tucker became the first NFL tight end to lead the league in receptions, topping the NFC with 59 catches for the Giants.[2]

Prior to joining the NFL, Tucker lettered in football and basketball at Hazleton High. At Bloomsburg State College, Tucker set three NAIA pass receiving records and went on to establish league records with the Pottstown the Pottstown Firebirds,[2] whom he played for in the Atlantic Coast Football League, along with the Lowell Giants.[3] In 1969, He was a member of the Philadelphia Eagles taxi squad in 1969, and signed in 1970 as a free agent with the New York Giants.[2]

Tucker is one of the few Giants to play for the team in four different home stadiums: Yankee Stadium (1970 through the first two home games of 1973); the Yale Bowl (last five home games of 1973 and all of 1974); Shea Stadium (1975) and Giants Stadium (1976–77). He lived in Lincroft, a neighborhood in Middletown Township, New Jersey.[4]

Tucker was inducted into the American Football Association's Semi Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1982.[5]

Tucker was a biology teacher and freshman football coach at Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Acton, Massachusetts in 1969.[6]

NFL career statistics

Legend
Bold Career high

Regular season

Year Team Games Receiving
GP GS Rec Yds Avg Lng TD
1970 NYG 14 13 40 571 14.3 41 5
1971 NYG 12 12 59 791 13.4 63 4
1972 NYG 14 14 55 764 13.9 39 4
1973 NYG 14 14 50 681 13.6 33 5
1974 NYG 13 13 41 496 12.1 29 2
1975 NYG 14 14 34 484 14.2 47 1
1976 NYG 14 14 42 498 11.9 39 1
1977 NYG 5 4 6 91 15.2 22 0
MIN 8 0 9 109 12.1 29 2
1978 MIN 16 16 47 540 11.5 35 0
1979 MIN 16 15 24 223 9.3 21 2
1980 MIN 16 13 15 173 11.5 25 1
156 142 422 5,421 12.8 63 27

Playoffs

Year Team Games Receiving
GP GS Rec Yds Avg Lng TD
1977 MIN 2 0 0 0 0.0 0 0
1978 MIN 1 1 4 48 12.0 21 0
1980 MIN 1 1 0 0 0.0 0 0
4 2 4 48 12.0 21 0

See also

References

  1. ^ "Bob Tucker, Former HHS Athlete, Bloomsburg Star". Hazleton Standard-Speaker. October 29, 1965.
  2. ^ a b c Robert Tucker, Luzerne County Sports Hall of Fame
  3. ^ Dr. Ken (September 2013). ONE DEFINITION OF "MINOR LEAGUE" FOOTBALL, PART TWO Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. HelmetHut.com. Retrieved September 10, 2015.
  4. ^ Harvin, Al. "An Offseason Game; New Jersey Sports", The New York Times, January 12, 1973. Accessed November 16, 2008. "Some of the other Jersey residents on the team, according to Davis, are Bob Tucker, the New York Giants' tight end from Lincroft; Phil Villapiano, Oakland Raider linebacker from Ocean Township, and Ron Johnson, Giant running back, now a resident of Fort Lee."
  5. ^ "AFA Hall of Fame Class of 2020" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on January 22, 2016. Retrieved August 29, 2011.
  6. ^ "The 1969 Torch" Year Book for Acton Boxboro Regional High School
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