Robert Nash

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Robert Arthur Nash ("Nasty") (born 1892-12-16 in County Meath, Ireland) played football for Rutgers College. He was on Walter Camp's 1914 All-America list in his junior season and went on to a superb 10-year professional career. In 1921, he was traded by the Akron Pros to the Buffalo All-Americans in the first such American Professional Football League transaction and later had the distinction of being the first captain of the New York Giants in 1925.