Maurice Dubofsky

Maurice "Mush" Dubofsky (August 10, 1909 – January 25, 1970) was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Georgetown and professional football for the New York Giants. He later served as the line coach for the Georgetown football team for 16 years and coached at the high school level for several years. He was also the head coach of Georgetown's club football team in 1968 and 1969.

Maurice Dubofsky
Personal information
Born:(1909-08-10)August 10, 1909
Hartford, Connecticut
Died:January 25, 1970(1970-01-25) (aged 60)
Bethesda, Maryland
Height:5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight:210 lb (95 kg)
Career information
High school:Weaver (CT)
College:Georgetown
Position:Guard
Career history
  • New York Giants (1932)
  • Shenandoah Presidents (1933–1934)
  • Reading Keys (1935)
  • Paterson Panthers (1936)
  • Baltimore Blue Birds (1937)
Player stats at PFR

Early years

Dubofsy was born in 1909 in Hartford, Connecticut.[1] He attended Weaver High School in Hartford, winning a reputation as "one of the outstanding athletes in the history of Hartford schoolboy sports."[2] He enrolled at Georgetown University and played at the guard position for the Georgetown Hoyas football team from 1928 to 1931.[1] He was selected by his teammates as captain of the 1931 Georgetown team.[3] He was also selected as a first-team guard on the 1931 All-American Catholic football team.[4][5] He was elected to the Georgetown Athletic Hall of Fame in 1953.[6]

Professional football

In June 1932, one week after graduating from Georgetown, Dubofsky turned down an offer to coach at Georgetown and instead signed a contract to play professional football for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL).[7] He appeared in five games, two as a starter, for the Giants.[1] He also played professional football for the Shenandoah Presidents in 1933 and 1934,[8] the Reading Keys in 1935,[9] the Paterson Panthers of the American Association in 1936 and the Baltimore Blue Birds of the Dixie League in 1937.[1] He earned a reputation as "a 60-minute man", "a play-buster par excellence", and "a thunderbolt tackler."[10]

Coaching and later years

Dubofsky received a law degree from Georgetown but never practiced law.[2] He was hired as the line coach for the Georgetown football team in 1933 and remained in that post for 11 years. During World War II, he served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy.[11] After the war, he returned to Georgetown as line coach and held that position until Georgetown terminated its football program after the 1950 season. Dubofsky then coached high school football. He was the head football coach St. John's High School in Washington, DC, for 11 years, during which his teams won nine Catholic league championships. He was also the head coach at South Catholic High School in Pittsburgh for five years. He returned to Georgetown in 1968 as head coach of Georgetown's club football team.[2] He also operated an insurance agency in Washington, DC, for several years.[2]

Dubofsky suffered a heart attack in October 1969.[12] Three months later, in January 1970, he died at Bethesda, Maryland, after sustaining another heart attack.[2] He was buried at Loudon Park National Cemetery in Baltimore.[13]

Since 1976, Georgetown has annually presented the Maurice A. Dubofsky Award to the best student athlete on the team.[14]

References
  1. "Maury Dubofsky". Pro Football Archives. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
  2. "'Mush' Dubofsky Dies; Football Hero". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. January 28, 1970. p. 4. Retrieved March 4, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  3. "Mush Dubofsky Elected Captain At Georgetown". The Hartford Courant. November 24, 1931. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. Harry Stuhldreher (December 26, 1931). "Stuhldreher on Football". The Tablet. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "'Mush" Dubofsky On All-Catholic College Eleven". The Hartford Courant. December 25, 1931. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Georgetown All-American". Hoya Basketball. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
  7. "Mush Dubofsky Signs To Play Pro Football: Accepts Contract With New York Giants -- Starred at Georgetown". The Hartford Couarant. June 15, 1932. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Sports Slants". Shamokin News-Dispatch. November 23, 1933. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Al Julian to use Knuckles as Back; Dubofsky On Line". The Reading Times. September 20, 1935. p. 29 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Mush Dubofsky". Republican and Herald. Pottsville, Pennsylvania. November 7, 1933. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Athletes in Uniform". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. December 4, 1943. p. 6.
  12. "Georgetown Coach Has Heart Attack". The Cumberland News. October 23, 1969. p. 36 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. "Maurice Dubofsky". Find a Grave. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
  14. "Team Awards". Hoya Football. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
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