Ralph Parsons Kinney Sr. (September 30, 1881 – July 1, 1956) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wit ...

player. He played college football for the

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team from 1902 to 1904 and was selected as a consensus All-American at the

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position in 1902. He graduated from Yale in 1905. He managed an orange plantation in

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in 1908 and also worked in Texas. In January 1909, he was married to Annie Averill of

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. As of 1920, he was employed by the A.B. Leach & Co. in Cleveland.

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