Facts: - sport: football - coach team: waynesburg - player years: 1919 -- 1922 1922 1922 1926 - birth date: 23 august 1900 - alt: james '' red '' roberts , centre college - caption: roberts , suited up for centre college - death date: 27 june 1945 - awards: 3x all-time centre team '' associated press '' southeast area all-time all-southern football team 1869-1919 era -lrb- 1919 , 1921 , 1922 -rrb- - name: red roberts - death place: middlesboro , kentucky - birth place: somerset , kentucky - player positions: fullback , end , guard , tackle - overall record: 3 -- 4 -- 1 - championships: 2 siaa -lrb- 1919 , 1921 -rrb- - alma mater: centre college - coach years: 1923 - player team: centre toledo maroons akron pros cleveland panthers - image: red roberts centre college football.jpg Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of red roberts -lrb- american football -rrb- .
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'' this is an article about the college football coach .for the baseball player , see red roberts . ''james madison '' red '' roberts -lrb- august 23 , 1900 -- june 27 , 1945 -rrb- was an american football player and coach .he played football for the centre praying colonels in danville , kentucky .roberts was thrice selected all-southern , and a unanimous choice for the '' associated press '' southeast area all-time football team 1869-1919 era .after college roberts , played in the early national football league -lrb- nfl -rrb- for the toledo maroons and the akron pros .he also played in the first american football league for the cleveland panthers .he later made a run for the office of governor of kentucky as a democrat in 1931 , losing in the primary to ruby laffoon who went on to win the election .