Dutch Speck

• Canton Nutshell Tigers ( independent) (1910 )
• Coleman Athletic Club (1914 )
• Canton Bulldogs (1915-1923)
• Akron Pros (1924 )
• Canton Bulldogs (1925, 1926)

• 2x NFL Championship (1922, 1923)
• 3x Ohio League Championships (1916, 1917, 1919)

Norman John "Dutch " Bacon ( born July 30, 1886 in Canton, Ohio, USA, † November 18, 1952 ) was a U.S. American football player. He played in the National Football League ( NFL) in the offensive line, among others, in the Canton Bulldogs.

Playing career

Dutch Bacon worked before his football career as a steelworker. From 1910 he played in various football team the Ohio League, a semi- professional American football league in his home state of Ohio. The greatest successes came with the Canton Bulldogs football team from a city of his birth. With the Bulldogs, he won three times the Ohio League championship. After the founding of the American Professional Football Association ( APFA ), the league was renamed in 1922 in the National Football League, in 1920, the Canton Bulldogs founding member of the League were. Coach of the team was Jim Thorpe began the bacon on the offensive line the team. Thorpe was in 1921 replaced by Cap Edwards, who had to give way again after the season Guy Chamberlin.

In addition to Chamberlin played in the team Pete and Henry Link Lyman, taken after her career in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Bacon was in 1922 with his team undefeated NFL champions. In the following year, the Bulldogs remained unbeaten during the season again and bacon won his second NFL title. After the season he moved to the Akron Pros, but ran only for this team in a game on. In 1925 he returned to the Bulldogs. After an unsuccessful season under Pete Henry, who had by now taken over as coach for the team from Canton, he finished his career there in 1926.

Dutch Bacon is buried in the Forest Hill Cemetery in Canton.