currentpositionplain finalyear death_date debutyear statvalue finalteam birth_date alt statseason pfr heightin death_place heightft number image college debutteam name statlabel caption nflnew birth_place weight dbf highschool article_title
linebacker , fullback 1949 19 august 1968 1947 31 176 baltimore colts -lrb- 1947 -- 1950 -rrb- 25 january 1923 spiro 1940s dellerba headshot on a matchbook from the early 1949 dellsp20 11 ashtabula , ohio 5 70 spiro dellerba , american football fullback.jpg ohio state university hamilton tiger-cats spiro dellerba games rushing yards dellerba on a matchbook from the early 1940s spirodellerba/2512752 ashtabula , ohio 200 dellespi01 ashtabula high school spiro dellerba

spiro dellerba

spiro dellerba -lrb- january 25 , 1923 -- august 19 , 1968 -rrb- was an american football fullback and linebacker who played three seasons in the all-america football conference -lrb- aafc -rrb- between 1947 and 1949 .
dellerba played for the cleveland browns and the baltimore colts .
dellerba grew up in ashtabula , ohio and attended ohio state university .
after serving in world war ii , he joined the hamilton tiger-cats for one year in 1946 before joining the browns , becoming the first man from ashtabula to play professional football .
dellerba then played two seasons for the colts before leaving the sport .
