John McNally
As a player
- Milwaukee Badgers (1925, 1926)
- Duluth Eskimos (1926, 1927)
- Pottsville Maroons (1928 )
- Green Bay Packers (1929-1933)
- Pittsburgh Pirates (1934 )
- Green Bay Packers (1935, 1936)
- Pittsburgh Pirates (1937, 1938)
- Buffalo Tiger ( 1941)
As coach
- Pittsburgh Pirates (1937-1939)
- NFL 1930s All- Decade Team
- Pro Football Hall of Fame (1963 )
- 4x All- Pro ( 1928-1930, 1931)
- Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame (1960 )
John "Johnny" Victor McNally ( born November 27, 1903 in New Richmond, Wisconsin, USA, † November 28, 1985 in Palm Springs, California ) Nickname: Blood, Johnny Blood or Vagabond Halfback was an American American football player in the National Football League ( NFL).
Playing career
McNally made with 14 years of his high school graduation and joined the short term the University of Notre Dame, but left it again as you put him there only as a tackle and not as desired as a halfback. He attended the College of Saint Benedict, therefore, and Saint John 's University where he ran next to football and other sports.
1924 McNally went with a friend on a motorcycle for a trial of a semi-professional football team in Minneapolis. Although he would have had one more year until his college degree, he wanted to join a professional team - which would have led inevitably to the exclusion of his college football team. Move the two drove past a movie theater where just the film Blood and Sand ( German: King of the Toreros ) ran with Rudolph Valentino. Without further ado, he missed himself the nickname Blood and his friend the nickname sand.
In 1925, the fast McNally joined the Milwaukee Badgers, who lost all their six games in the NFL. In 1926 he was a teammate of Ernie Nevers at the Duluth Eskimos. The team from Duluth had to stop the operation of gambling due to financial difficulties after a poor season in 1927. After a game at the Pottsville Maroons year McNally moved in 1929 to the trained by Curly Lambeau Green Bay Packers. The team from Green Bay has already won in his first year with 12 wins from 13 games, the NFL championship. 1930 committed the Packers Arnie Herber and it was the next title, which in 1931 a third title win joined. 1931 McNally scored 84 points in the season. His 14 touchdowns were required to Ligabestleistung.
Lambeau was McNally 1934 the Pittsburgh Pirates from, after an unsuccessful year there is McNally joined the Packers in 1935 again and was able to catch 25 passes, which was at that time team record this year. In 1936, he won again the championship. In the NFL Championship Game, the Boston Redskins could be defeated with 21:6. 1937 and 1938 followed by two more, but unsuccessful years with the Pirates. In both years, he was also the head coach of the team. After McNally had ended his playing career in 1938, he put 1939 his coach resigns to train a second-rate football team. 1941 McNally returned again shortly return to pro football sports. He played a game for the Buffalo Tiger, a team of just two years, existing American Football League. From 1950-1952 McNally coached the football team of his old college.
Honors
McNally was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963. He is a member of the NFL 1930s All- Decade Team and the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame. Four times he was elected to the All Pro. 2003 named the Packers a ballroom at Lambeau Field after him.
Off the pitch
McNally was also known for his exalted behavior off the field. So he ran to entertain themselves in the cab with the engineer for a championship game over the rooftops of a moving train. He was egged on by his teammates LaVern Dilweg to this action. His nickname: Vagabond Halfback he received because he, after he had missed the train, these unceremoniously stopped by on the rails, he put his car across so as to stop the train with his teammates. McNally sat at this time still in his car, he would therefore can be easily run over.
During World War II McNalls served as a cryptographer in the U.S. Army. At the age of 42 years after he took at his former college after the war, an economics degree. The figure of the Dodge Connolly from the movie Leatherheads, which is played by George Clooney, John McNally modeled.
McNally is buried in the Immaculate Conception Cemetery in New Richmond.