Jimmy Conzelman

As a player

Decatur Staley (1920 )
Rock Iceland Independents (1921-1922)
Milwaukee Badgers (1922-1924)
Detroit Panthers (1925-1926)
Providence Steam Roller (1927-1929)

As coach

Rock Iceland Independents (1921-1922)
Milwaukee Badgers (1922-1924)
Detroit Panthers (1925-1926)
Providence Steam Roller (1927-1929)
Chicago Cardinals (1940-1942)
Chicago Cardinals (1946-1948)

2x All-Pro selection (1923, 1925) 1 2 team
NFL 1920s All- Decade Team
Pro Football Hall of Fame (1964 )
NFL Championship winner (1928, 1947)

James Good Conzelman ( born March 6, 1898 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, † 31 July 1970, ibid ), born as James Gleason Dunn, was a US- American football player and coach. He has played as a quarterback.

Origin

Conzelman was born the son of James Dunn and Margaret Ryan in St. Louis. After his father died, he took the name of the second husband of his mother. Even in high school he played quarterback. With his high school team, he won the city championship. His family was not in a financial position to finance his studies. He was therefore dependent on a scholarship.

Playing career

College Players

1916 Conzelman received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Due to the death of his stepfather, he had the college but soon left again for his mother to support. In 1917, he joined the U.S. Navy and played quarterback for the team to its naval base. At the same time he worked as a boxer and won the Navy middleweight championship. With its football team, in the later members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Paddy Driscoll and George Halas played, he moved in 1919 into the Rose Bowl and won against another Marine team with 17:0. In 1919 he returned to his old college in St. Louis.

Professional players

1920 joined the 183 cm and 79 kg Conzelman to the Decatur Staley, who belonged to the newly formed NFL and were a short time later renamed Chicago Staley and later in Chicago Bears. After one season, he left that team and joined the rock Iceland independents. There he was appointed spontaneously during a game his team from the team owner at the age of 23 years as Head Coach. After the Independents had prematurely ended their season, he joined in 1922 as a player and coach of the Milwaukee Badgers on. 1925 Conzelman became a team owner. For the price of 500 U.S. dollars ( according to other sources 400 U.S. dollars), he earned an NFL franchise and founded the Detroit Panthers. During the first season, the team from Detroit, the team reached the final table in a good third place - it could be won eight of 12 games - they finished in the following year but only in the middle of the table. Since the Panthers also had no commercial success, Conzelmann had to sell the team this year for $ 1,200 again. He himself was not only the owner of the team, he also played for the team and was their coach. 1927 ran on Conzelmann for the Providence Steam Roller. With the team he won the NFL championship as a player-coach in 1928. Already in this game round Conzelmann had problems with one knee. These knee injury forced him his playing career in 1929 to finish.

Coaching career

Conzelman returned to his hometown and became a businessman. At the same time, he coached until 1932 a semi- professional football team before he took over as coach at his old college. During his time at his old college coach his team won 32 of 50 games.

1940 returned Conzelman back in the NFL and was head coach of the Chicago Cardinals, he has coached three rounds long. Conzelman was also an avid baseball player who played between the rounds for various unterklassigen teams baseball. In 1942 he became assistant to the president of the St. Louis Browns, a team from the MLB. In 1946 he took over again the coach of the Cardinals. In 1947, he led his team to the NFL championship. In the final game, the Philadelphia Eagles were defeated by 28:21. The following year, the Cardinals had, however, 7-0 in the final game the Eagles defeated. Conzelmann ended after this season his career.

As head coach of pro football teams Conzelman won 87 of his 167 games. Conzelman died at the age of 72 years. He is buried in the Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum in St. Louis.

Honors

Conzelman is a member of the NFL 1920s All- Decade Team and the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He was elected twice to the All- Pro.

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