Bob Taylor Dobbins Explained

Bob Taylor Dobbins
Birth Date:	3 July 1890
Birth Place:	Gallatin, Tennessee, U.S.
Death Place:	Mobile, Alabama, U.S.
Player Years1:	1913-15
Player Team1:	Sewanee
Player Positions:	Guard/Tackle
Coach Years1:	1916
Coach Team1:	Sewanee (assistant)
Coach Years2:	1922 - 1923
Coach Team2:	Howard (assistant)
Awards:	2× All-Southern (1914, 1915) Second team all-time Sewanee football team

Robert Taylor Dobbins (July 3, 1890 - July 27, 1945) was a college football player and coach.

Early years

Bob Taylor Dobbins was born on July 3, 1890, in Gallatin, Tennessee^[1] to Thomas Miller Dobbins and Leila Glass.^[2]

Dobbins attended, where he was a guard and tackle on the Sewanee Tigers football team, captain of its 1915 team. He was selected All-Southern and a second-team member of Sewanee's all-time football team.^[3] ^[4] ^[5]

Dobbins coached high school football in Mobile, Alabama, for many years.

Dobbins was an assistant under former Sewanee coach Harris G. Cope at Howard.^[6]

United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M1509, 4,582 rolls. Imaged from Family History Library microfilm
"Alabama Deaths and Burials, 1881–1952." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2009, 2010. Index entries derived from digital copies of original and compiled records.
News: Atlanta Constitution. Composite All-Southern Of Ten Of The Dopesters. Dick Jemison. November 30, 1915.
Sewanee's All-Time Football Team. Sewanee Alumni News. February 1949.
31. National and Southern Honors. Sewanee Football Media Guide. 2011.
News: To be coach. Atlanta Constitution. September 3, 1922.