Len Eshmont hailed from Atlas, Pennsylvania, a small town near Mount Carmel.

He played college football at Fordham University in The Bronx; as a senior in 1940, he led the Rams to a 7–1 regular season record and a berth in the Cotton Bowl, which they lost by a point to sixth-ranked Texas A&M.

Eshmont was selected by the New York Giants in fifth round of the 1941 NFL draft, 36th overall.

[1] He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and then played for the 49ers from 1946 to 1949, and scored the first touchdown in franchise history.

[2][3] Eshmont died at age 39 in 1957 of infectious hepatitis at the University Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he had been a patient for his final three months.