Ernie Nevers
Playing career
- Duluth Eskimos (1926, 1927)
- Chicago Cardinals (1929-1931)
Coaching career
- Duluth Eskimos (1927 )
- Chicago Cardinals (1930, 1931, 1939)
- College Football Hall of Fame (1951 )
- Pro Football Hall of Fame (1963 )
- NFL 1920s All- Decade Team
- 5x NFL All-Pro selection ( 1926, 1927, 1929-1931 )
- Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame (1981 )
Ernest Alonso " Ernie " Nevers ( born June 11, 1903 in Willow River, Minnesota, USA; † 3 May 1976 San Rafael, California ) Nickname: Big Dog, was an American American football, baseball and basketball players.
Origin
Nevers was born the son of a restaurant owner married couple. He had seven siblings. His parents moved several times around, eventually he played American football, basketball and baseball at a high school in Superior, Wisconsin and later, after a new move of his parents for a school in Santa Rosa, California. Nevers was the beginning of his career Football overweight and not very fast, which helped him to get some recognition for disastrous appearance. During training, he was often attacked hard, but it only abhärtete. After his change of school he could win 1920 he with his football team, the regional championship.
Playing career
College
Nevers received in 1923 a scholarship to Stanford University. With the Stanford Indians him as team captain in 1925 succeeded the way into the Rose Bowl. Nevers plays both on offense, as well as in the Defense and stood during the entire 60 minutes of play on the court. With 114 Yards space gain by running game he could Walk more yards than the famous attack of the series of Knute Rockne Notre Dame Fighting Irish trained by Harry Elmer Layden and chair Dreher together. Nevertheless, the University of Notre Dame with 27:10 you had to admit defeat. Nevers was declared the Most Valuable Player of the game, but the fame with Layden had to share it. The game also brought him, however, still the appointment to the All- American and made him known in the American 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 U.S. $ 25,000. The series has been reduced to a game that won the Bears with 19:6, where Nevers scored the only touchdown of his team. Shortly after, he signed a professional baseball contract. He played from 1926 to 1928 as a pitcher for the St. Louis Browns. In his three game years, however, he was able to win only six of his 18 games counted statistically. Babe Ruth was able to achieve in 1927, two homers against him.
In 1926, he joined as a football player the Duluth Eskimos. The Eskimos paid him a salary of 15,000 U.S. dollars, which was at that time league record. Along with this content and the revenue from the All-Star Game, and the money from his baseball contract and the income from a contract basketball (he played for a team from Chicago) in 1926, he earned $ 60,000.
1927 took over Nevers at the same time as coach of the Eskimos, for which he was practically the whole game on the court. The Eskimos, who decreed in 1926 and 1927 does not have a stadium and 28 of its 29 games away fought out, had to suspend their gaming operations in 1927. Nevers sat out 1928 due to injury for a year and joined the Chicago Cardinals in 1929. With this team he took over a year later as coach. A title he could not win with his team, but he scored in 1929 in a game against local rivals Chicago Bears every six touchdowns and made a total of 40 points in this game. This is still league record. In 1931, he ended his career. But let it not take in 1932 again aground in a charity game, which he, however, drew upon a violation. From 1932 to 1938, he coached numerous college teams to return in 1939, among others, the University of Iowa again as manager of the Cardinals. The season was unsuccessful.
Honors
Nevers is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, the Pro Football Hall of Fame, in the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame and the NFL 1920s All- Decade Team. He was five times voted All- Pro. 2003 Nevers was on a stamp issued by the United States mail, immortalized.
Off the pitch
Nevers served in World War II as a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. After his release, he worked for a spirits company. He died of kidney failure and is buried in the Mount Tamalpais Cemetery in San Rafael.