Diddy Willson

Osbern Putnam Willson, known as Diddy, was an American professional football guard who played three seasons for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League in the first years of the franchise. Born in Crosby, Pennsylvania, in 1911, he went to Oakfield High School in Oakfield, New York, and then played college football for the Penn Quakers at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was on the freshman team in 1929 and a three-year letterman from 1930 to 1932. At Penn he also played water polo and lacrosse. He appeared in seven games, starting one, for the Eagles in their inaugural 1933 season, started all eleven games in 1934 and ten games in 1935, a year in which the team won only two games. He stood five feet ten inches tall and weighed 196 pounds, and he died in Phelps, New York, in 1961.