Ralph Scott (American football)
As a player
- Chicago Staley / Bears (1921-1925)
- New York Yankees (1926, 1927)
As coach
- New York Yankees (1926, 1927)
- All-Pro selection ( 1927)
- APFA Championship ( 1921)
Ralph Vernon Scott (born 26 September 1894 in Dewey Township, Wisconsin, USA; † August 16, 1936 ) was a U.S. American football player and coach. He has played as a guard for the Chicago Bears in the National Football League ( NFL).
Players and coaching career
Ralph Scott studied from 1917 to 1920 at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, for their football team, the Wisconsin Badgers, he was used at various positions. In 1920 he was elected to the All- American. In the years 1917, 1919 and 1920 he was also honored by his college because of his athletic achievements. In 1921, he signed a professional contract with the Chicago Staley coached by George Halas that have been renamed in the following year, Chicago Bears. The Staley played in, which was founded a year earlier American Professional Football Association, which was renamed in 1922 in the National Football League.
The Staley was in 1921, nine out of eleven games make victorious and thus won the champion's title in the NFL. Scott finished his career after the season 1925 in Chicago. Although the Bears were a top team in the NFL, even after their first title win, Scott succeeded no other title more. In 1926, he joined the New York Yankees, which had been founded in the year of Red Grange, to. The Yankees played in the American Football League ( AFL) and were 1926 runners-up in the league. With Grange also the later members were in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Red Badgro, Ray Flaherty and Mike Michalske the team of Yankees. Scott also served in 1927 as player-coach of the team that changed this year in the NFL since the AFL had to suspend the operation of gambling. After an unsuccessful season in 1927 withdrew Ralph Scott of professional football. In 1936 he committed suicide.