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Statistical Leaders of the ‘20S
THE COFFIN CORNER: Vol. 14, No. 2 (1992) Statistical Leaders of the ‘20s By Bob GIll Probably the most ambitious undertaking in football research was David Neft’s effort to re-create statistics from contemporary newspaper accounts for 1920-31, the years before the NFL started to keep its own records. Though in a sense the attempt had to fail, since complete and official stats are impossible, the results of his tireless work provide the best picture yet of the NFL’s formative years. Since the stats Neft obtained are far from complete, except for scoring records, he refrained from printing yearly leaders for 1920-31. But it seems a shame not to have such a list, incomplete though it may be. Of course, it’s tough to pinpoint a single leader each year; so what follows is my tabulation of the top five, or thereabouts, in passing, rushing and receiving for each season, based on the best information available – the stats printed in Pro Football: The Early Years and Neft’s new hardback edition, The Football Encyclopedia. These stats can be misleading, because one man’s yardage total will be based on, say, five complete games and four incomplete, while another’s might cover just 10 incomplete games (i.e., games for which no play-by-play accounts were found). And then some teams, like Rock Island, Green Bay, Pottsville and Staten Island, often have complete stats, based on play-by-plays for every game of a season. I’ll try to mention variations like that in discussing each year’s leaders – for one thing, “complete” totals will be printed in boldface. -
The Staten Island Stapletons
THE COFFIN CORNER: Vol. 7, No. 6 (1985) THE STATEN ISLAND STAPLETONS By John Hogrogian Special thanks to N.F.L. Properties, Inc. for permission to publish this article. Trollies rolled down Broadway and Calvin Coolidge was president when the NFL came to New York City in 1925. In the years since Tim Mara founded the Giants, NFL teams have made their home in each of the City's five boroughs. The Giants played in the Polo Grounds in upper Manhattan through 1955, then moved to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx through 1973. The Brooklyn Dodgers football team thrived in Ebbets Field during the 1930s and 1940s. The Jets made their home in Shea Stadium in Queens from 1964 until recently. And, in the sleepiest of the boroughs, the Staten Island Stapletons played NFL ball from 1929 through 1932. The Stapes struggled through life on a shoestring, but helped keep the NFL afloat as it fought for life in the Depression. The Stapes started out in 1915, five years before the NFL was born in the midwest. Dan Blaine, a good halfback and a native of the working-class neighborhood known as Stapleton, along with three other players formed the team to play other semi-pro squads from New York and New Jersey. The Stapes played more for fun than money. Just as well: crowds were small; salaries averaged $10 per game. Nevertheless, they managed to do well, winning several local semi-pro titles before World War I. After military service, Blaine took over sole ownership in 1919. Blaine himself prospered in the 1920s. -
Vol. 31, No. 4 2009
Vol. 31, No. 4 2009 PFRA-ternizing 2 PFRA Committees 3 PFRA Election 5 Packers Crash Thru: 1929 6 1946 AAFC All-Rookie Team 12 Violet and Walter 13 1950 Championship Game 19 Classifieds 24 THE COFFIN CORNER: Vol. 31, No. 4 (2009) 2 PFRA-ternizing Game Changers: 50 Seems like we’re always nagging at Greatest Plays in Buffalo you. If you don’t read the whole Committees article, you’ll miss an Bills Football History (50 urgent request for people to write Greatest Plays in short summaries for the Linescore Committee. We have linescores for Football History) every NFL and AAFC game, but (Hardcover) numbers don’t tell the whole story. by Marv Levy (Author), Jeff Miller Often, the main importance of a game (Author) can be summed up in three or four sentences. A really important game List Price: $24.95 Price $16.47 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over may not be explained in four or five $25. Details sentences, but the reader can be You Save: $8.48 (34%) shown why that game is worthy of a longer study. Pre-order Price Guarantee. Learn more. You probably have some old news This title has not yet been released. You may pre-order it now and we will clips of games lining the bottom of a deliver it to you when it arrives. drawer. Why not take a look and give Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. a try to summing up the games in a Gift-wrap available. few short sentences? When you have a couple done, send them to Ken Crippen and he’ll take it from there. -
Spring Newsletter
P a g e | 1 White Plains Historical Society FOUNDED IN 1983 • SUCCESSOR TO THE BATTLE OF WHITE PLAINS MONUMENT COMMITTEE Jacob Purdy House • 60 Park Avenue • White Plains, NY 10603 • www.whiteplainshistory.org • Winter-Spring 2015 WHITE PLAINS’ WORLD WAR I SOLDIERS’ MEMORIAL 100 YEARS SINCE “THE WAR TO END ALL WARS” By Barbara Carlson Residents driving into our city on West Post Road see familiar sights: the beautiful Post Road Elementary School, and further along, the Post Road Service Station to the right, and Ernesto’s, Aries Wine Shop, NuWay Cleaners as well as other retailers, to the left. What most do not see is precisely at the triangular confluence of West Post Road and Maple Avenue. Can’t guess? It is one of two outdoor World War I Monuments in White Plains (the other being located in Tibbits Park on North Broadway). The monument’s visibility has been diminished over the years, after its original structure was demolished, and then later due to the overgrowth of shrubs. But as we prepare for the 100th Anniversary of the United States entering World War I, the White Plains Historical Society is working to increase the visibility and awareness of a memorial commemorating the ultimate sacrifice made by young men from White Plains during what was supposed to be “the war to end all wars.” World War I commenced with major hostilities in Europe in August 1914. The United States did not formally enter the war on the side of the Allies until April 6, 1917. The war ended with the armistice of November 11, 1918. -
1927 Hominy Indians Defeat N
In 1927 the Hominy Indians won a football game that has become the stuff of legend and, in 2018, the focal point of a movie, Playground of the Native Son. This caught my attention because the game was billed as Hominy vs. the 1927 NFL Champion New York Giants. The Giants, the story goes, were making a post-season swing out to California and stopped in Hominy thinking it would be an easy scrimmage for them but got beaten 13 – 6. This raised questions for the research I was doing on Steve Owen, who started every game for the Giants that 1927 season at left tackle. He went to college in Oklahoma and after he played in 1926 with the Giants, newspapers in Tulsa, Oklahoma, reported he signed on with Jim Kendrick’s Buffalo Rangers for the final game in a series of three contests with the Hominy Indians. But I had no evidence he actually played against Hominy in 1926 and no mention anywhere that he played in 1927 A 1992 article by Arthur Shoemaker in The Coffin Corner (the newsletter of the Professional Football Researchers Association) was entitled: Hail to the Real ‘Redskins’ - All Indian team from Hominy, Okla. , Took on All Comers. In it Shoemaker talks about the 1927 game and notes: “Newspaper accounts of the Indians-Giants fray tell of outstanding plays made by Giant halfback Ben Hobson and tackle Rudy Comstock. Interestingly enough, neither of them played for the Giants in any league games that year (Comstock played for Frankford, Hobson for Buffalo), which suggests that this was a barnstorming team with a number of “ringers” filling in around a nucleus of players from the champs. -
2015 Georgia Tech Baseball Information
GEORGIA TECH BASEBALL 2015 2015 ROSTER INFORMATION NUMERICAL ROSTER ALPHABETICAL No. Name Position B/T Height Weight Year Hometown / High School / Last College No. Name 2 Grant Wruble ** C/OF R/R 6-1 184 Jr. Johns Creek, Ga. / Chattahoochee 3 Wade Bailey 3 Wade Bailey IF/OF R/R 5-9 175 Fr. Villa Rica, Ga. / Villa Rica 22 Trevor Craport 4 Zac Ryan * RHP R/R 6-1 201 So. Valparaiso, Ind. / Andrean 28 Jared Datoc 5 Keenan Innis * OF/RHP L/R 6-0 181 So. Cumming, Ga. / Blessed Trinity 10 Brandon Gold 6 Ryan Peurifoy * OF R/R 6-2 200 So. Peachtree City, Ga. / Starr’s Mill 14 Matt Gonzalez 7 Arden Pabst * C R/R 6-1 199 So. Sherman Oaks, Calif. / Harvard Westlake 37 Daniel Gooden 8 Ryan Young RHP S/R 5-10 170 Fr. Kennesaw, Ga. / Blessed Trinity 26 Matthew Gorst 9 A.J. Murray *** 1B/C R/R 6-1 216 Sr. Westfi eld, N.J. / Westfi eld 5 Keenan Innis 10 Brandon Gold * IF/RHP R/R 6-3 202 So. Alpharetta, Ga. / Johns Creek 11 Blake Jackson 11 Blake Jackson 3B R/R 6-2 191 Fr. Warner Robins, Ga. / Houston County 25 Kel Johnson 13 Thomas Smith *** IF R/R 6-1 181 Sr. Fort Pierce, Fla. / John Carroll 15 Connor Justus 14 Matt Gonzalez ** 3B/OF R/R 5-11 195 Jr. Acworth, Ga. / Harrison 39 Jonathan King 15 Connor Justus * IF R/R 5-11 195 So. Cartersville, Ga. / Cartersville 42 Kyle Leach 16 Coleman Poje # IF/OF R/R 6-2 212 Jr. -
1930: Nagurski's Debut and Rockne's Lesson
1930 NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE 1 1930: NAGURSKI’S DEBUT AND ROCKNE’S LESSON By PFRA Research (Based in part on text from The Football Encyclopedia, Neft, Cohen, and Korch) For years it was said that George Halas and One of the first casualties of Jones’ Dutch Sternaman, the Chicago Bears’ co-owners housecleaning was veteran center George and co-coaches, always took opposite sides in Trafton, who was considered washed up at 33. every minor argument at league meetings but Trafton disagreed. He surprised everyone by presented a united front whenever anything major showing up in camp and winning back his was on the table. But, by 1929, their bickering position. had spread from league politics to how their own team was to be directed. The absence of a united To supplement veterans like Trafton, Red Grange, front between its leaders split the team. The and Link Lyman, Jones brought in a large result was the worst year in the Bears’ short contingent of rookies. Number one on the list was history -- 4-9-2, underscored by a humiliating 40-6 Bronko Nagurski, a legendary figure out of the loss to the crosstown Cardinals. A change was University of Minnesota where he’d earned All- necessary. America honors as both a fullback and tackle. He stood 6’2” and carried 216 pounds of muscle and Neither Halas nor Sternaman was willing to let the bone. He ran with his head down like a battering other take charge, and so, in the best tradition of ram. One time he tore through a goal line Solomon, they resolved their differences by defense, smashed through the end zone, and agreeing that neither would coach the team. -
Talked Secretary
I - NET PRESS BEN AVEBAGSi DAILY CIBCULATION for the Bfontli of November, 19S9 \ ^ t e w > t«y - 5 , 4 8 8 Contt- H enben 'of the Aiidit Barean of Circulationa / ■ CONN., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1929. FOURTEEN PAG^ VOL. XLIV., NO. 68. (.Cbissllled Advertising on iHype 12) SOUTH MAI 415 SAVED AS JAPANESE DELEGATES LSLi^VE WASHPSTGTON SHIPISSDNK » ------ s OFF M YORK SENATEDEBA1E Bermuda Liner Rammed by Porter Resolntibn to Study Conditions Will Be Taken TALKED Clyde Steamer in the Har VALUE)AT bor-N earby Ships Pick Up After Holidays— Ac SECRETARY Up Passengers. tion by the House. I W G R E pR E A K New York, Dec. 19.— (A ? .)— ] Washington, Dec. 19.—(AP)— Lawyer Tells lob b y Probers He Resents Fact That Mr. Rescued when their ship was •ram The Porter resolution to carry out (Hd Wood Shop, Owned by med and sunk at the fog-hidden en President Hoover’s wish for a study Hoover’s Name is Being Bandied About in the Inves trance to New York Bay, 250 pas of'conditions in, Haiti arrived at the Victor Hedeen Entered; sengers of the Fumiss-^rmuda Senate side of the Capitol today, On their way to the Important London naval armament conference, Japanese delegates stopepd off in and was made the newest addition steamship Fort Victoria were safe Washington where i'optimistic hope” for the success of the parley was expressed. Here you see them tigation— Says He Met President Through Charitable to the list of subjects slated by that as they called on Vice President Curtis afthe capitol. -
OCR Document
THE COFFIN CORNER: Vol. 13, No. 3 (1991) Tigers Roar in Tennessee Memphis Stands Tall in the Early Years of Pro Football By Bob Gill In the annals of popular culture, the 1950s will be remembered for the rise to popularity of two national phenomena: rock ‘n’ roll and pro football. The former traces its roots to a small studio in Memphis, Tenn., where Elvis Presley and Sam Phillips synthesized the sound that soon swept the nation. The development of the second is more difficult to trace, involving as it did more than half a century. One little-known similarity, though, is that Memphis also played a role in the formative years of pro football. Their impact was somewhat less than that of Elvis, but from 1929 to ‘34 the Memphis Tigers had their own place in the football sun. In those days the NFL occupied only a small corner of the northeastern United States. And there was no national TV or radio coverage to bring the likes of Ernie Nevers or Bronko Nagurski into the living rooms of outlying areas. As a result, a number of fine football teams, sometimes of NFL quality, sprang up in regions like the West Coast and the South. The Tigers were the first major team in the latter area. The team began in 1927 as the “New Bry’s Hurricanes.” (New Bry’s was presumably a local business of some sort that sponsored the club.) Organized late in the season under coach Gil Reese, a former Vanderbilt star, the Hurricanes played only four games, posting a 3-0-1 record. -
The Team That Time Forgot the Final Season of the Staten Island Stapletons
THE COFFIN CORNER: Vol. 12, No. 5 (1990) The Team That Time Forgot The Final Season of the Staten Island Stapletons By Bob Gill EDITOR’S NOTE: In a 1985 Coffin Corner article (Vol. VII, nos. 11-12), John Hogrogian chronicled the Staten Island Stapletons’ rise from neighborhood semi-pro team to NFL franchise. That account ended with the Stapletons’ withdrawal from the NFL. Their final season, played independently, was covered in a brief epilogue. The following article completes the Staten Island story with a detailed account of the team’s last go-round. * * * * As far as I can tell, the last team to drop out of the NFL and continue as an independent was the Staten Island Stapletons. It happened in 1933, and the fact that we have to go back more than a half-century to find such a thing is testimony to the league’s success in establishing itself as king of the hill. In the early years, of course, it wasn’t unusual for teams to drop out in pursuit of their own agenda; but in the 1930s that practice went the way of the dropkick. A law of gridiron economics was born: If you can’t make a go of it with the big boys, you sure can’t do it on your own. And if anyone happened to doubt that claim, Staten Island was Exhibit A. The Stapletons weren’t a terrible NFL team, finishing in the middle of the pack for most of their stay in the league. And they featured two genuine stars in backs Ken Strong and Doug Wycoff, college All- Americans from NYU and Georgia Tech, respectively. -
Jackets Ready for Opening Game with Petrels Membership in the S
• (3-be beellttlativC "THE SOUTH'S LIVEST COLLEGE WEEKLY" Georgia School of Technology VOL. XV THE TECHNIQUE, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1925 NO. 1 Jackets Ready For Opening Game With Petrels Membership In The S. I. A. A. Champions Military Department' Expected To Bring Will Be Limited Strong Team Many Other Changes Have Contest Will Be Hard Fought Been Made Tomorrow the Yellow Jackets will begin the football season of 1925. Colonel Earle D'Arcy Pierce, head Oglethorpe University, a team which of the military department, has an- when first placed on the schedule nounced that the R. 0. T. C. will be was considered a set up, will meet limited to 1431 members at Tech this Tech with a different spirit and a year, this being a part of the na- Erwin, Marshall, Godwin, Connally, Wycoff, Merkle, Carpenter, Pool. Williams, Murry, Tharpe, Forrester, Barron different team than in the past. The tional plan of military economy adopt- Letter Men Ready for the Opening Game The Petrels feel that this is their ed by the war department. This big year. They have gained a con- condition calls for several changes in fidence by a surprisingly successful the methods hitherto pursued by the Large Number Of Yellow Jackets Will Skull And Key Society season of last year which they have military department at Georgia Tech. never before had. Freshmen having previous military Officers A scene on the Oglethorpe campus experience, and who can pass the Freshmen Present Be On Sale At The Elects this week shows numerous placards necessary examinations will be given tacked everywhere bearing the slo- credit for first year military, and For College Night Oglethorpe Game For Coming Year gan, "Beat Tech". -
LOT# TITLE BIDS 1 Ultra-Rare Jerry Garcia Signed Fender Stratocaster
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