Bob Davis (tackle)

{{Short description|American football player (1927–2010)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}}

{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Bob Davis

| number = 59

| position = Offensive tackle

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1927|5|3}}

| birth_place = Columbus, Georgia, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2010|6|12|1927|5|3}}

| death_place = Gastonia, North Carolina, U.S.

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 4

| weight_lb = 235

| high_school = Jordan Vocational (Columbus)

| college = Georgia Tech

| draftyear = 1947

| draftround = 6

| draftpick = 44

| pastteams =

• Boston Yanks ({{NFL Year|1948}})

| highlights =

• Consensus All-American (1947)
• Second-team All-American (1946)
• 3× First-team All-SEC (1945, 1946, 1947)

| statlabel1 = Games played

| statvalue1 = 12

| pfr = DaviBo23

| CollegeHOF = 1616

}}

Robert Thomas Davis Jr. (May 3, 1927 – June 12, 2010) was an American professional football player who was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL).

Davis was born and raised in Columbus, Georgia and played scholastically at Jordan Vocational High School.{{cite web| url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/D/DaviBo23.htm |title=Bob Davis Stats |website=Pro Football Reference |access-date=May 24, 2024}} He played collegiately for the Georgia Tech football team,{{cite web| url=https://www.nfl.com/players/bob-davis-2/ |title=Bob Davis Stats |website=NFL.com |access-date=May 24, 2024}} where he was a member of Chi Phi fraternity. He was named to the All-SEC first-team three times (1945, 1946, 1947), and was a two-time All-American, earning second-team honors in 1946,{{cite news |title=NEA 1946 All-Americans |newspaper=The Pittsburgh Press |date=November 23, 1946 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19461123&id=qVkbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1EwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4860,2728511}} and a consensus selection in 1947.{{cite web |title=Football Award Winners |publisher=National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) |year=2016 |access-date=October 21, 2017 |page=8 |url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2016/awards.pdf}} He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1978.{{cite web| url=https://footballfoundation.org/hof_search.aspx?hof=1616 |title=Bobby Davis (1978) |website=College Football Hall of Fame |access-date=May 24, 2024}}

Davis was selected by the New York Giants in the sixth-round of the 1947 NFL draft.{{Cite web |title=1947 NFL Draft Listing |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/1947/draft.htm |access-date=May 24, 2024 |website=Pro Football Reference}} He played one season in the NFL (1948), with the Boston Yanks, appearing in 12 of their 14 games.{{Cite web |url=https://www.profootballarchives.com/playerd/davi04200.html |title=Bob Davis Stats |website=Pro Football Archives |access-date=May 24, 2024 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230130112936/https://www.profootballarchives.com/playerd/davi04200.html |archive-date=January 30, 2023}}

In 1956, he was Mayor of Columbus, Georgia.[http://www.columbusga.org/mayor/mayors.pdf Historical List of Mayors] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829133653/http://www.columbusga.org/mayor/mayors.pdf |date=2012-08-29 }}, columbusga.org