Cabbage Patch Kids Connecticut's consumer protection commissioner, Mark Shiffrin. Cabbage Patch Kids Cabbage Patch Kids are a line of soft sculptured toy doll like creatures sold by Xavier Roberts and registered in the United States copyright office in 1978. The doll brand was one of the most popular toy fads of the 1980s and one of the longest-running doll franchises in the United States. The characters appeared in many other Cabbage Patch merchandising products ranging from animated cartoons to record albums to board games. According to Roberts, as a 21-year-old art student, he utilized the quilting skills he learned from his mother and
Lloyd Roberts (American football) Lloyd Roberts (American football) Lloyd T. "Preacher" Roberts was a college football and basketball player and coach. Roberts played both football and basketball for the Tulane Green Wave of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. His brother Floyd Roberts was called "Little Preacher" and played as a halfback for Tulane next to Don Zimmerman. Roberts was a prominent center for Tulane Green Wave football team, including the Southern Conference (SoCon) championship football teams of 1929 and 1930, quarterbacked by Red Dawson. Roberts wore number 45. Roberts anchored the line on the undefeated SoCon champion 1929 team. Roberts was elected captain