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Ray Montgomery (American Football)
Adelbert Raymond Montgomery (February 1, 1909 – May 26, 1966) was an American football guard at the University of Pittsburgh. He was a consensus All-American in 1929. Playing career Montgomery was a native of West Virginia. He played for the Pittsburgh Panthers football team under coach Jock Sutherland during the 1927, 1928 and 1929 seasons. In his senior year he helped the team go 9-0 that earned a trip to the Rose Bowl. That year, as a 6-foot, 1-inch, 188-pound guard, he was recognized as a consensus first-team All-American, having received first-team honors from several publications and organizations including ''Collier's Weekly'' (Grantland Rice) and United Press (UP).''2014 NCAA Football Records Book'' Award Winners, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Indianapolis, Indiana, pp. 4 & 14 (2014). Retrieved August 20, 2014. Outside of football Montgomery appeared in the 1930 film " Maybe It's Love." The film, directed by William A. Wellman, was a genre football comed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wheeling, West Virginia
Wheeling is a city in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Located almost entirely in Ohio County, of which it is the county seat, it lies along the Ohio River in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains and also contains a tiny portion extending into Marshall County. Wheeling is located about 60 miles (96 km) west of Pittsburgh and is the principal city of the Wheeling metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the metro area had a population of 145,205, and the city itself had a population of 27,062. Wheeling was originally a settlement in the British colony of Virginia, and later the second-largest city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. During the American Civil War, Wheeling was the host of the Wheeling Conventions that led to the formation of West Virginia, and it was the first capital of the new state. Due to its location along major transportation routes, including the Ohio River, National Road, and the B&O Railroad, Wheeling became a manufacturing center in the late n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Pommerening
Otto Paul Pommerening (January 26, 1904 – February 1, 1992) was an American football player. A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, he played college football as a Tackle (American football), tackle for the University of Michigan Michigan Wolverines football, Wolverines from 1927 to 1928. He was a consensus first-team All-American in 1928. He later worked as an engineer for the Wayne County, Michigan, Wayne County Road Commission. Early years Pommerening was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1904. He was the son of August Pommerening (1861-1947) and Mathilde (Wruck) Pommerening. His father was an immigrant from Germany and a construction worker. University of Michigan Pommerening attended the University of Michigan. He played on the freshman football team in 1924 and the varsity football team from 1926 to 1928. During the 1928 season, Pommerening became the first player in the history of the Big Ten Conference to play every minute of every game for his team. One wire service report ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pittsburgh Panthers Football Players
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Western Pennsylvania, the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, second-most populous city in Pennsylvania behind Philadelphia, and the List of United States cities by population, 68th-largest city in the U.S. with a population of 302,971 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The city anchors the Pittsburgh metropolitan area of Western Pennsylvania; its population of 2.37 million is the largest in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia, the Pennsylvania metropolitan areas, second-largest in Pennsylvania, and the List of metropolitan statistical areas, 27th-largest in the U.S. It is the principal city of the greater Pittsburgh–New Castle–Weirton combined statistical area that extends into Ohio and West Virginia. Pitts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Football Guards
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1966 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo is deposed by a military coup in the Republic of Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso). * January 10 ** Pakistani–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of the Tashkent Declaration, a day before the sudden death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. ** Georgia House of Representatives, The House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia refuses to allow African-American representative Julian Bond to take his seat, because of his anti-war stance. ** A Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference convenes in Lagos, Nigeria, primarily to discuss Rhodesia. * January 12 – United States President Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communism, Communist aggression there is e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1909 Births
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Howard Jones (American Football Coach)
Howard Harding Jones (August 23, 1885 – July 27, 1941) was an American football player and coach who served as the head coach at Syracuse University (1908), Yale University (1909, 1913), Ohio State University (1910), the University of Iowa (1916–1923), Duke University (1924) and the University of Southern California (1925–1940), compiling a career record of 194–64–21. His 1909 Yale team, 1921 Iowa team, and four of his USC teams ( 1928, 1931, 1932, 1939) won national championships. Jones coached USC in five Rose Bowls, winning all of them. Before coaching, Jones played football at Yale (1905–1907), where he played on three national title-winning teams. He was a member of the inaugural class of inductees into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951; his younger brother, Tad, joined him as a member in 1958. Early life and playing career Jones was born in Excello, Ohio, near Middletown. He played football for three seasons at Yale University, from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Saunders
Russell Maurice Saunders (May 21, 1919 – May 29, 2001) was a stunt man and acrobat. Saunders did Alan Ladd's fight scene in ''Shane (film), Shane''. He also doubled for Gene Kelly in ''Singin' in the Rain'' and ''An American in Paris''. He was in many other famous movies from as early as Hitchcock's ''Saboteur (film), Saboteur'' in 1942 to as late as ''Mississippi Burning'' in 1988. Saunders was lauded by other famous stuntmen, such as Brayton Yerkes and Gary Morgan (actor), Gary Morgan. Fay Alexander called him, "without a doubt the best all-around acrobat I've ever known." Saunders was the model for Salvador Dalí's painting ''Christ of Saint John of the Cross''. The painting shows Jesus from the viewpoint of God the Father (from above); Saunders was suspended from the ceiling to allow Dalí to visualize the human body under the stress of crucifixion. Saunders was famous for performing at Muscle Beach and for giving free lessons to children. "This has to be the only plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wear Schoonover
Wear Kibler Schoonover (March 18, 1910 – May 12, 1982) was an American college football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1967. Playing career He was the first Arkansas Razorback, as well as the first Southwestern football player, to be on the All-American team. Schoonover is one of five members of the inaugural class of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame is the hall of fame and museum for sports in Arkansas, United States. The hall of fame inducted its first class in 1959. The hall's museum is located on the west end of the Verizon Arena in North Little Rock, Arkansas. .... He was one of 11 All-American football players to appear in the 1930 film " Maybe It's Love". References External links * * 1910 births 1982 deaths People from Pocahontas, Arkansas Arkansas Razorbacks football players College Football Hall of Fame inductees Arkansas Razorbacks baseball players Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Scull
Paul Thomas "Butterball" Scull, Sr. (September 4, 1907 – December 11, 1997) was an American football player. Considered a triple-threat man while playing for Penn from 1926 to 1928, he was a consensus first-team All-American halfback in 1928. Early years Born in New Jersey, Scull moved with his family to Lower Merion, Pennsylvania as a boy. He played high school football at Lower Merion High School from 1922 to 1924, helping lead the team to a 26-0-1 record during his three years as a player. Penn Scull played at the halfback and punter positions for the University of Pennsylvania from 1926 to 1928. In November 1927, he was elected to serve as the captain of Penn's 1928 football team. He was a consensus first-team All-American in 1928. He holds Penn's all-time record with 312 all-purpose yards in a game. Scull was a member of the Kappa Chapter of Theta Chi Fraternity. In 1929, Scull was selected as the inaugural recipient of Theta Chi Fraternity's Reginald E.F. Colley A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elmer Sleight
Elmer Noble "Red" Sleight (1907 - August 9, 1978) was an All-American football player. Sleight was born in 1907 in Morris, Illinois, and attended Morris High School. He played at the Tackle (American football), tackle position for the Purdue University Purdue Boilermakers football, Boilermakers from 1927 to 1929. He was a consensus first-team player on the 1929 College Football All-America Team, 1929 All-America college football team, receiving first-team honors from the Associated Press, ''Collier's Weekly'', International News Service an All-America Board. He also received the Western Conference medal for proficiency in scholarship and athletics and was one of 11 All-American football players to appear in the 1930 film "Maybe It's Love (1930 film), Maybe It's Love". He played professionally for the Green Bay Packers in 1930 and 1931. He appeared in 26 NFL games for the Packers, 19 of them as a starter. After his playing career ended, Sleight held assistant coaching positions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
