Professional Coaching Career
Folwell was the first head coach of the New York Giants in 1925. The following season he took the same position for the Philadelphia Quakers of the first American Football League and led the team to the championship of the short-lived league. He coached the Atlantic City Roses of the Eastern League of Professional Football in 1927, but was forced to retire to his farm in New Jersey after one season. A hip infection, which began while he was coaching the Philadelphia Quakers, worsened, forcing him to walk with a cane. In January 1928, he had a hip operation at Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia. The surgery was initially successful, but he took a turn for the worse and died January 8, 1928.
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