Walter "Wally" Paul Ladrow (October 16, 1895 – July 22, 1974) was a professional

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 with ...

player. He was an original member of the

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. He played for the Packers as a running back during the Packers first two seasons, 1919 and 1920, the two years before the team joined the

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(NFL). After teammate Gus Rosenow died in June 1974, Wally was the final surviving member of the Packers inaugural 1919 team.

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