{{Short description|American football player (1900–1973)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox NFL biography | name = Red Howard | image = File:Red Howard, Princeton Tackle, 1923.jpg | number = 10, 24 | position = Guard | birth_date = {{birth date|1900|11|23}} | birth_place = Haverhill, Massachusetts, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1973|5|29|1900|11|23}} | death_place = Essex Fells, New Jersey, U.S. | height_ft = 5 | height_in = 11 | weight_lbs = 192 | high_school = Haverhill | college = Princeton (1922–1924) | pastteams = * Brooklyn Horsemen (1926) * Brooklyn Lions ({{NFL Year|1926}}) * New York Giants ({{NFL Year|1927}}) | highlights = * NFL champion ({{NFL Year|1927}}) | pfr = H/HowaRe20 }} '''Albert Franklin "Red" Howard''' (November 23, 1900 – May 29, 1973) was an American football guard who played two seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Brooklyn Lions and New York Giants. He was also a member of the Brooklyn Horsemen of the American Football League (AFL).<ref name="A">{{cite web | url=http://www.profootballarchives.com/howa03400.html | title=RED HOWARD | publisher=profootballarchives.com | accessdate=July 25, 2015 | archive-date=July 25, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150725210557/http://www.profootballarchives.com/howa03400.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> Howard played college football for the Princeton Tigers.
==Amateur career== Howard attended Haverhill High School in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He first enrolled at New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts (which became the University of New Hampshire in 1923) where he was captain of the freshman football team in 1919.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/44588870/fine_1920_outlook_at_new_hampshire/ |title=Fine 1920 Outlook at New Hampshire |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=7 |date=December 1, 1919 |accessdate=February 16, 2020 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> He transferred to Princeton University in 1920,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/44589401/haverhill_has_one_player_on_tiger_eleven/ |title=Haverhill Has One Player on Tiger Eleven |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=4 |date=November 11, 1922 |accessdate=February 16, 2020 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> where he played for the varsity Tigers football team for the 1922 through 1924 seasons.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/44589886/haverhill_boy_expected_to_play_for/ |title=Haverhill Boy Expected to Play for Tigers Saturday |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=9 |date=November 4, 1924 |accessdate=February 16, 2020 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name=WW/> He also played lacrosse at Princeton, and earned a B.S. degree there in 1925.<ref name=WW>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica00unse |title=Who's Who in American Sports |publisher=National Biographical Society |year=1928 |access-date=February 16, 2020 |page=387 |via=Wayback Machine}}</ref>
==Professional career== Howard played in four games for the Brooklyn Horsemen of the American Football League in 1926.<ref name="A"/> The Horsemen merged with the Brooklyn Lions of the National Football League on November 12, 1926, and he played in three games for the Lions during the 1926 NFL season.<ref name="A"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nfl/brookl/horselions.html |title=Historical Moments |publisher=sportsecyclopedia.com |accessdate=July 25, 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150725171059/http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nfl/brookl/horselions.html |archivedate=July 25, 2015 }}</ref>
Howard played in one game for the 1927 New York Giants.<ref name="A"/>
==Personal life== Howard served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919.<ref name=WW/> In 1923, Howard's father captured a young Bengal tiger while in India on an expedition, and sent it to Princeton as a mascot.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blogs.princeton.edu/mudd/2014/12/which-came-first-the-tiger-or-his-stripes/ |title=Which came first? The Tiger or his stripes? |first=Christa |last=Cleeton |website=princeton.edu |date=December 3, 2014 |accessdate=February 21, 2020}}</ref> Howard was married in 1926.<ref name=WW/>
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
==External links== *{{Find a Grave}}
{{1927 New York Giants}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Howard, Red}} Category:1900 births Category:1973 deaths Category:American football guards Category:New Hampshire Wildcats football players Category:Princeton Tigers football players Category:Brooklyn Horsemen players Category:Brooklyn Lions players Category:New York Giants players Category:Sportspeople from Haverhill, Massachusetts Category:Players of American football from Essex County, Massachusetts Category:United States Navy personnel of World War I