Elmer "Toady" Bracher (1996) - Rutgers Athletics Hall of Fame

Elmer "Toady" Bracher

Induction:
1996
Class:
1916

A halfback for his three years, Bracher also played baseball and basketball before the First World War cut short his career. The diminutive Bracher, at 5-5, 140-pounds totaled 11 touchdowns in 1913. In 1915, he carried 183 times for 1,021 yards (for seven TDs), which stood as the Rutgers single season mark for 52 years until broken by Bryant Mitchell in 1968. That 1915 total still stands as the fifth-best single season and garnered him All-American mention. He held the school single-game rushing record which he set with 220 yards against Stevens in 1915.