Tommy Yarr


Thomas Cornelius Yarr was an American football player and coach. He played college football as a center at the University of Notre Dame, where was captain of the 1931 [Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team] and a consensus section to the 1931 [College Football All-America Team]. He then professionally for one season, in 1933, for the History of the [Chicago Cardinals|Chicago Cardinals] of the National Football League. Yarr served as the head football coach at John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio from 1934 to 1935, compiling a record of 6–10–2. He was inducted into the College [Football Hall of Fame] as a player in 1987.
Yarr was Native Americans in [the United States|Native American] of Snohomish descent. He died of a heart attack in Chicago in 1941.