Charlie Timmons

{{Short description|American football player (1917–1996)}}

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

{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Charlie Timmons

| image = Charlie Timmons-3 (Taps 1942).png

| caption = Timmons at Clemson in 1941

| number = 22, 91

| position = Fullback
Linebacker

| birth_date = {{birth date|1917|2|08|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Piedmont, South Carolina, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1996|3|27|1917|2|08}}

| death_place = Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.

| height_ft = 5

| height_in = 10

| weight_lb = 210

| high_school = Abbeville (SC)

| college = Clemson
Georgia

| draftyear = 1942

| draftround = 19

| draftpick = 176
(by the Washington Redskins)

| pastteams = * Brooklyn Dodgers (1946)

| highlights = * 2× First-team All-SoCon (1940, 1941)

| statlabel1 = Rushing yards

| statvalue1 = 65

| statlabel2 = Rushing average

| statvalue2 = 2.8

| statlabel3 = Receptions

| statvalue3 = 1

| statlabel4 = Receiving yards

| statvalue4 = 4

| pfr = TimmCh20

}}

Charles Truman Timmons (February 8, 1917 – March 27, 1996) was an American professional football fullback in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He played college football at the University of Georgia and Clemson College; as a sophomore at the 1940 Cotton Bowl, he rushed for 127 yards and scored the only touchdown in the {{nowrap|6–3}} {{nowrap|Clemson win.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FG8hAAAAIBAJ&pg=3685%2C256699|work=Reading Eagle |location=(Pennsylvania) |agency=United Press |last=Snider |first=Steve |title=Cotton Bowl game costly |date=January 2, 1940 |page=14}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_stYAAAAIBAJ&pg=5676%2C5259685 |work=Eugene Register-Guard |location=(Oregon) |agency=Associated Press |title=Clemson upsets Boston College |date=January 2, 1940 |page=2}}}}

Timmons was selected in the nineteenth round of the 1942 NFL draft by the Washington Redskins, but instead joined the U.S. Navy. During training, he played for the Georgia Pre-Flight Skycrackers football team.{{cite book|last1=Jones|first1=Wilbur D. Jr.|title="Football! Navy! War!" how military "lend-lease" players saved the college game and helped win World War II|date=2009|publisher=McFarland & Co.|location=Jefferson, N.C.|isbn=978-0-7864-5416-7|page=69|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0EkyXxoyJcoC&q=Charlie+Timmons+football&pg=PA68}}