Ernie Nevers
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Position (s): Fullback |
Jersey numbers: 1 (college), 4, 11, 44 |
| born June 11, 1903 in Willow River , Minnesota | |
| died May 3, 1976 in San Rafael , California | |
| Career information | |
| Active : 1926 - 1931 | |
| College : Stanford University | |
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Player career
Coaching career
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| Career statistics | |
| Games | 54 |
| TD through run | 38 |
| PAT | 52 |
| Stats at pro-football-reference.com | |
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| Pro Football Hall of Fame | |
| College Football Hall of Fame | |
Ernest Alonso "Ernie" Nevers (* 11. June 1903 in Willow River , Minnesota ; † 3. May 1976 , San Rafael , California ) Nickname : Big Dog was a US American-Football- , baseball - and basketball player .
origin
Nevers was born to a couple who run inns. He still had seven siblings in total. His parents moved several times, eventually playing American football, basketball and baseball at a high school in Superior , Wisconsin and later, after his parents moved again, to a school in Santa Rosa , California . Nevers was overweight at the beginning of his football career and not particularly fast, which gave him too little recognition from his teammates. He was often attacked hard during training, but that only hardened him. After changing school, he was able to win the regional championship with his football team in 1920.
Player career
college
Nevers received a scholarship from Stanford University in 1923 . With the Stanford Indians he managed to move into the Rose Bowl in 1925 as team captain . Nevers played in both the offense , and in the Defense and stood during the entire 60 minutes of the game on the court. With 114 yards of space gained by running play, he could run more yards than the famous attack series of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish trained by Knute Rockne around Harry Stuhldreher and Elmer Layden combined. Nevertheless, Nevers and his team at the University of Notre Dame were beaten by 27:10. Nevers was named the game's Most Valuable Player , but had to share the fame with Layden. However, the game also earned him the title of All-American and made him known in the US sports world.
professional
Nevers began his professional career in 1926 in a series of all-star games against the Chicago Bears . For this he paid the Jacksonville All-Stars 25,000 US dollars . The series was shortened to one game, which the Bears won 19-6, with Nevers scoring his team's only touchdown . Shortly thereafter, he signed a professional baseball contract. He played as a pitcher for the St. Louis Browns from 1926 to 1928 . In his three playing years, however, he was only able to win six of his 18 statistically counted games. Babe Ruth was able to achieve two home runs against him in 1927 .
In 1926 he joined the Duluth Eskimos as a football player . The Eskimos paid him a salary of $ 15,000 , which was a league record at the time. Combined with that salary and the income from the All-Star game, as well as the money from his baseball contract and income from a basketball contract (he played for a team from Chicago ), he made $ 60,000 in 1926.
In 1927 Nevers took over at the same time as the coach of the Eskimos, for which he was on the field for practically the entire game. The Eskimos, who had no stadium of their own in 1926 and 1927 and played 28 of their 29 games away from home, had to stop playing in 1927. Nevers sat out for a year due to an injury in 1928 and joined the Chicago Cardinals in 1929 . He also took over the coaching position for this team a year later. He could not win a title with his team, but in 1929 he scored all six touchdowns in a game against local rivals Chicago Bears and made a total of 40 points in this game. This is still a league record. In 1931 he ended his career. In 1932 he insisted on playing again in a charity game, although he suffered an injury. From 1932 to 1938 he coached various college teams, including the University of Iowa , to return to the Cardinals in 1939 as a coach. The season was unsuccessful.
Honors
Nevers is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame , Pro Football Hall of Fame , Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame, and the NFL 1920s All-Decade Team . He was voted All-Pro five times . In 2003 Nevers was immortalized on a postage stamp issued by the US Post .
Off the field
Nevers served as a captain in the US Marine Corps during World War II . After his release, he worked for a liquor company . He died of kidney failure and is buried in Mount Tamalpais Cemetery in San Rafael.
swell
- Jens Plassmann: NFL - American Football. The game, the stars, the stories (= Rororo 9445 rororo Sport ). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-499-19445-7 .
- Chuck Frederick: Leatherheads of the North. The True Story of Ernie Nevers & the Duluth Eskimos. X-Communication, Duluth MN 2007, ISBN 978-1-887317-32-0 .
Web links
- CV Ernie Nevers (English)
- Ernie Nevers at the cardinal (English)
- Ernie Nevers in Stanford (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Stanford University's Official Athletic Site - Football . January 25, 2013. Archived from the original on January 25, 2013.
- Jump up ↑ Nevers Baseball Statistics
- ^ Annual statistics of the Eskimos
- ↑ Annual statistics of the Cardinals
- ↑ The oldest NFL records on the Pro Football Hall of Fame homepage
- ^ Postage stamp from Nevers
- ↑ Nevers Tomb
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Nevers, Ernie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nevers, Ernest Alonso (full name); Nevers, Big Dog (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football player and coach, basketball and baseball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Willow River , Minnesota |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 1976 |
| Place of death | San Rafael , California |