Tommy Thompson

Philadelphia Eagles

Excerpted from:
The Coffin Corner Volume XVII
By Bob Carroll
(Pro Football Research Association)
 

Tommy Thompson was the underrated quarterback of one of the great teams in NFL history, the Philadelphia Eagles of the late 1940's. All-Pro Eagles like runner Steve Van Buren, end Pete Pihos, and center Chuck Bednarik were better known, but it was Thompson who pulled the right strings to make it all go. Thompson signed with Pittsburgh for $150 a game. Thompson was born in Hutchinson, KS, played high school football in Fort Worth, TX and college football at Tulsa. He signed to play with the Chicago Cardinals in 1939. They hadn't drafted him. But then he didn't report in September and was placed on the inac