Gambling debts forced Tose to sell the team to Norman Braman in 1985. On his 81st birthday, in 1996, Tose was evicted from his seven-bedroom Main Line mansion after losing it in a U.S. marshal's sale.

Leonard Hyman Tose was born March 6, 1915, in Bridgeport, Pa. His father, who came to the United States from Russia, settled outside Philadelphia and was a peddler with a pack on his back.

Tose Spencer's rise to the top of a NFL front office A job with the Eagles wasn't originally in the cards for Tose Spencer, who was an aspiring teacher when her father took over the team in 1969.

Tose would play seven hands at a time, $10,000 on each. He’d split a pair of kings instead of sticking with a sure thing. He says there were nights when he lost at least $1 million.

In 1976, Tose lured Dick Vermeil from UCLA to coach the hapless Eagles, a team with only one winning season from 1962 to 1975. Vermeil's 1980 team went to the Super Bowl, but lost to the Oakland ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Leonard Tose, a former Philadelphia Eagles owner and jet-setter who gambled away his fortune, died Tuesday at 88. Tose died in his sleep in the hospice wing of St. Agnes Medical ...

AT A hearing by the United States Congress into gambling, the most compelling witness by far was Leonard Tose. He reckoned that he had lost about $40m through gambling, or it might have been as ...

When Susan Tose Spencer ran the Eagles as an executive, she was the first to do so in NFL history. Photo: Business Wire In early 1983, the Philadelphia Eagles football team was on the brink of ...

Susan Tose-Spencer, the former Eagles executive who became the NFL’s first female vice president and general manager, died March 24, her family said in a press release. She was 83 years old.