height_ft weight_lbs years death_date teams article_title position height_in birth_date pfr nfl college name
5 180 1922-1923 1924 1926 1927 august 1978 frankford -lrb- nfl -rrb- philadelphia quakers -lrb- afl i -rrb- atlantic athletic city roses -lrb- elpf -rrb- assoc. -lrb- ind. -rrb- frankford yellow jackets whitey thomas
 end 10 august 17 , 1895 thomwh20 tho400092 penn state whitey thomas
whitey thomas

william c. `` whitey '' thomas -lrb- august 17 , 1895 -- august 1978 -rrb- was an american football end .
he played for the frankford yellow jackets in 1924 in the national football league and for the philadelphia quakers in 1926 in the first american football league .
thomas also played for the yellow jackets in 1922 and in 1923 , before the team became members of the nfl .
he played college football for penn state , before playing professionally .
during whitey 's final season of professional football in 1927 , he played for the atlantic city roses .
during a 6-0 loss to the staten island stapletons , he caught four passes for 101 yards .
