Art Donovan, a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, who as a defensive end that helped the Baltimore Colts win back-to-back National Football League titles (1958, 1959), passed away on Sunday at Baltimore at the age of 89.
Mr. Donovan, who began his NFL career in 1950 with the original Colts franchise that came over from the old All-American Football Conference, went to the New York Yanks when the original Colts folded in 1951, then to the Dallas Texans in 1952---a club which went bankrupt that year, and taken over by the league who converted it into a road team based in Hershey, Pennsylvania, returned to Baltimore in 1953 with the new Colts, who took over the roster of the defunct Texans.
Art was a tough defensive lineman, who, along with Don Joyce, Gino Marchetti, and Gene (Big Daddy) Lipscomb, formed the defensive front that helped the Colts win back-to-back NFL championship games (both over the New York Giants) in 1958 and 1959.
Art retired after the 1961 season after 12 NFL seasons. He would make in the ensuing decades make numerous appearances on TV talk shows, telling humorous stories about his playing days.
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