Al Romine


Alton Rollon Romine was a gridiron football defensive back and a halfback in the National Football League, the Canadian Football League, the Ontario Rugby Football Union, and American Football League. He played for the NFL's Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers ; the CFL's Toronto Argonauts and Ottawa Rough Riders ; the ORFU's Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen, and the AFL's Denver Broncos and Boston Patriots. Romine played collegiate ball for the University of North Alabama before playing professionally for 8 seasons. He retired from football in 1961. In 1963, he became the head coach of the Huntsville Rockets of the Southern Professional Football League. He died in 2015.