Spiro Dellerba

• Hamilton Tiger -Cats (1946 )
• Cleveland Browns (1947 )
• Baltimore Colts (1948, 1949)

• AAFC Champion (1947 )
• Ashtabula County Football Hall of Fame

Spiro Dellerba (born 25 January 1923 in Ashtabula, Ohio; † August 19, 1968 in North Madison, Ohio), an American American football and Canadian football player was. He played as a linebacker, among others in the All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ) at the Cleveland Browns and the Baltimore Colts.

Playing career

College career

Spiro Dellerba studied at Ohio State University and played along with Dante Lavelli, Lou Groza and Bill Willis College football for the Ohio State Buckeyes, who were coached by Paul Brown. During the Second World War, he played for a military team American Football.

Professional career

After the end of World War II, Spiro Dellerba the Hamilton Tiger -Cats, a team of Canadian Football League ( CFL) concluded on. In 1947 he was hired by the Paul Brown Cleveland Browns managed a football team from the All- American Football Conference. Groza, Lavelli and Willis 1946 there were already under contract. The Browns put him as a running back. The team won twelve out of 14 games this year and moved with this power into the AAFC - final against the New York Yankees. With a 14:3 victory of his team Dellerba won the championship of the AAFC as a rookie. Dellerba moved to this game to the supervised by Cecil Isbell Baltimore Colts. For the Colts, he played in defense as linebacker. A title win did not succeed with the team from Baltimore. After the 1949 season, the AAFC had to stop the operation of gambling due to financial problems and Dellerba ended his career.