Tackle / End
Nebraska
1926-1928
Ed Weir coached the Yellow Jackets in 1927 and played tackle in 36 games for the team over the course of two seasons. An All-American at the University of Nebraska, he famously stopped Notre Dame’s “Four Horsemen” in consecutive years and helped hold Illinois’ Red Grange to negative-yards rushing.
View Ed Weir’s 1927 player contract with the Yellow Jackets
Bio
Ed Weir
Position: T/E
5-10, 192lb (178cm, 87kg)
Born: March 14, 1903 in Superior, NE
Died: May 15, 1991 (Aged 88-062d) in Lincoln, NE
College: Nebraska
High School: Superior (NE)
Stats
All Players
- Adolf “Swede” Youngstrom
- Ben Jones
- Berlin “Guy” Chamberlin
- Charles “Charley” Rogers
- Dr. Joseph Alexander
- Ernest “Tex” Hamer
- Francis “Hap” Moran
- Francis “Jug” Earp
- Glenn Walter “Wally” Diehl
- H.S. Shep Royle
- Henry “Heinie” Miller
- Henry “Two-Bits” Homan
- Henry “Pud” Connaughton
- Herbert Joesting
- Jim Mullaney
- Joey Maxwell
- John Houston “Hust” Stockton
- Joseph Howard Berry Jr.
- Ken Mercer
- Les Asplundh
- Lud Wray
- Max Reed
- Paul Fitzgibbon
- Robert “Punk” Berryman
- Rudolph “Rudy” Comstock
- Russell “Bull” Behman
- Samuel Edwin “Ed” Weir
- Theodore E. “Thee” Holden
- William “Link” Lyman
- Wolcott “Wooky” Roberts
