Raymond Lucian Mallouf (July 11, 1918 – June 6, 2008) 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 with ...

quarterback The quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB"), colloquially known as the "signal caller", is a position in gridiron football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive platoon and mostly line up directly behind the offensive line. In modern Ame ...

and punter who played professionally in the

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(NFL). He was a part of the

Chicago Cardinals The professional American football team now known as the Arizona Cardinals previously played in Chicago, Illinois, as the Chicago Cardinals from 1898 to 1959 before relocating to St. Louis, Missouri, for the 1960 through 1987 seasons. Roots ca ...

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team in 1947. Mallouf was the first quarterback in NFL history to achieve a

perfect passer rating In the National Football League (NFL), the highest official passer rating that a quarterback can achieve is 158.3, which is called a "perfect passer rating". To qualify, during a single game a quarterback must attempt at least 10 passes, have zero ...

of 158.3 in a game when he led Chicago to a 63-35 victory over the

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in 1948.

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* 1918 births 2008 deaths American football punters American football quarterbacks Chicago Cardinals players New York Giants players SMU Mustangs football players People from Sayre, Oklahoma Players of American football from Oklahoma United States Navy personnel of World War II {{Amfoot-punter-stub