Wallace Andre "Shorty" Barr (November 30, 1897 – April 26, 1957) was a professional

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player in the

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(NFL) for the

Racine Legion The Racine Legion was a professional American football team based in Racine, Wisconsin, of the National Football League from 1922 to 1924. Its official name was the Horlick-Racine Legion. The team then operated as the Racine Tornadoes in 1926. ...

and the

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. He was also a player-coach for the NFL's renamed

Racine Tornadoes The Racine Legion was a professional American football team based in Racine, Wisconsin, of the National Football League from 1922 to 1924. Its official name was the Horlick-Racine Legion. The team then operated as the Racine Tornadoes in 1926. ...

in 1926. On November 25, 1923, as the

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for the Legion, Barr was tackled twice in the

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during a game against the

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causing the Cards to register a pair of safeties in the only four-point game in NFL history. The Legion won the game though 10–4. In 1924 Barr punted 40 times for Racine and averaged 65 yards per punt.

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