Emanuel Tolbert - Misplaced Pages

American gridiron football player (born 1958)

This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous.
Find sources: "Emanuel Tolbert" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Emanuel Tolbert
Career information
Date of birth	(1958-12-02) December 2, 1958 (age 66)
Place of birth	Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.
Position(s)	Slotback Wide receiver
US college	Southern Methodist
NFL draft	1980 / round: 7 / Pick 183 (By the Chicago Bears)
Career history
As player
1980–1981	Saskatchewan Roughriders
1981–1984, 1989	Toronto Argonauts
1985–1988	Calgary Stampeders
1990	British Columbia Lions

Career highlights and awards
Grey Cup champion (1983) Consensus All-American (1978) 2× First-team All-SWC (1977, 1978)
CFL All-Star	1988

Emanuel Tolbert (born December 2, 1958) is a former American college and professional football player who was a slotback and wide receiver in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for eleven seasons during the 1980s and early 1990s. Tolbert played college football for Southern Methodist University, where he was an All-American. He played professionally for the Saskatchewan Roughriders, Toronto Argonauts, Calgary Stampeders and British Columbia Lions of the CFL, and played a key role in the Argonauts' 1983 Grey Cup victory by recovering a fumble on the game-winning drive.

Tolbert was convicted of rape and violating a minor in 2001. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the rape plus four years for violation, to be served concurrently.

References

Ex-CFLer Tolbert loses rape appeal, CBC News, Thursday, March 6, 2003

v t e 1978 College Football All-America Team consensus selections
Offense	QB Chuck Fusina RB Charles Alexander RB Ted Brown RB Billy Sims RB Charles White WR Emanuel Tolbert TE Kellen Winslow OT Kelvin Clark OT Keith Dorney G Pat Howell G Greg Roberts C Dave Huffman C Jim Ritcher
Defense	DL Mike Bell DL Bruce Clark DL Hugh Green DL Al Harris DL Marty Lyons LB Tom Cousineau LB Bob Golic LB Jerry Robinson DB Kenny Easley DB Johnnie Johnson DB Jeff Nixon
Special teams	P Russell Erxleben

1978 College Football All-America Team consensus selections

Offense

Defense

Special teams

P Russell Erxleben

v t e Chicago Bears 1980 NFL draft selections
Otis Wilson Matt Suhey Arland Thompson Paul Tabor Mike Guess Emanuel Tolbert Randy Clark Turk Schonert Willie Stephens Chris Judge Bob Fisher

v t e Toronto Argonauts 71st Grey Cup champions
Steve Ackroyd Tony Antunovic Joe Barnes Ian Beckstead Carl Brazley Bob Bronk Jan Carinci Stephen Del Col James Curry Gordon Elser Dan Ferrone Marcellus Greene Terry Greer Michael Hameluck Condredge Holloway Greg Holmes Hank Ilesic Franklin King Tony Lawson John Malinosky Ken McEachern Cedric Minter William Mitchell Don Moen Rick Mohr Darrell Nicholson Bill Norton John Palazeti Leroy Paul Paul Pearson Kelvin Pruenster Emanuel Tolbert Geoff Townsend Tom Trifaux Darrell Wilson Earl Wilson Head coach: Bob O'Billovich Assistant coaches: Joe Moss

Toronto Argonauts 71st Grey Cup champions

Head coach: Bob O'Billovich

Assistant coaches: Joe Moss

This biographical article relating to a Canadian football wide receiver is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: