Ernie Nevers

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Ernest Alonzo Nevers (June 11, 1902 – May 3, 1976), nicknamed "Big Dog",<ref name="Lieb">Template:Cite web</ref> was an American professional football and baseball player and football coach. Widely regarded as one of the best football players in the first half of the 20th century, he played as a fullback and was a triple-threat man known for his talents in running, passing, and kicking. He was inducted with the inaugural classes of inductees into both the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963. He was also named in 1969 to the NFL 1920s All-Decade Team.

Nevers played four sports (football, basketball, baseball, and track and field) for Stanford University from 1923 to 1925 and was a consensus first-team All-American in football in 1925. He played professional football in the National Football League (NFL) for the Duluth Eskimos in 1926 and 1927 and the Chicago Cardinals from 1929 to 1931. In 1929, one week after defeating the Dayton Triangles, who were playing in their final game before moving to Brooklyn to embark on their long and tenuous history through the league, he set an NFL record that still stands by scoring 40 points in a single game. In the same game, he set another NFL record by scoring six rushing touchdowns in a single game against the Chicago Bears, a record that remained unequaled until the 2020 season in which New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara also accomplished the feat, scoring six touchdowns against the Minnesota Vikings on Christmas Day.<ref name=singlegametie /> Nevers also played professional baseball as a pitcher for the St. Louis Browns of the American League from 1926 to 1928 and the Mission Bells of the Pacific Coast League (PCL) in 1928 and 1929.

Nevers also had a long career as a football coach, including stints with the Stanford Indians (assistant, 1928, 1932–1935), the Chicago Cardinals (head coach, 1930–1931, 1939), Lafayette Leopards (head coach, 1936), Iowa Hawkeyes (assistant, 1937–1938), and the Chicago Rockets (assistant, 1946).

Early life

Nevers' parents, George and Mary Ann Nevers, were immigrants to the United States from New Brunswick, Canada. In addition to Ernie, they had five sons (Harry, Frank, John, George, and Arthur) and one daughter (Edith).<ref name=GNobit>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref><ref name=MANobit>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref><ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref><ref>Some family detail is taken from the 1910, 1920, and 1930 U.S. Census entries for George Nevers and family.</ref> By the time Nevers was born, the family had moved from New Brunswick to Willow River, Minnesota, where Nevers was born in 1902.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=PFR>Template:Cite web</ref> The family moved again to Superior, Wisconsin, where Nevers grew up and attended Superior Central High School. In 1920, the family moved to a ranch and fruit farm in the Rincon Valley section of Santa Rosa in Sonoma County, California.<ref name=GNobit/><ref name=MANobit/> Nevers attended Santa Rosa High School for the first half of his senior year. He led the Santa Rosa football team by scoring 108 of the team's 170 points. After starting the basketball season for Santa Rosa, he returned to Superior early in 1921 to play for Central. He graduated from Central that spring.<ref name="Bush">Template:Cite web</ref>

In 1921, Nevers attended Santa Rosa Junior College and was the star of the school's football team. In a game against Petaluma, he scored four touchdowns and kicked six extra points and a field goal.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

Stanford University

In 1922, Nevers enrolled at Stanford University. He played for the freshman football team at fullback and halfback in the fall of 1922.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

1923–24 academic year

As a sophomore, Nevers became a star for the 1923 Stanford varsity football team.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref><ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref><ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> He was described as "a sweet punter and a general all-around backfield star" and "the backbone of the Stanford offense."<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

In the final game of the 1923 season, the dedication game for California Memorial Stadium, Nevers gained more yards than the entire California team, even though Cal won the Big Game 9–0. After the game, the Los Angeles Times wrote: "The desperate drive of Ernie Nevers . . . will go down in history as one of the greatest individual efforts ever seen on a gridiron."<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref><ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

At the end of the 1923 season, Nevers was selected by the United Press as the first-team All-Pacific Coast fullback.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He was also selected by Walter Camp as the third-team fullback on the 1923 College Football All-America Team.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

After the 1923 football season was over, Nevers demonstrated his overall athletic ability by also starring for Stanford's basketball, baseball and track teams.<ref name=NSJ/><ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> He was rated as the Pacific coast's best player in both football and basketball, the best college pitcher, one of the leading track performers, and "a crack swimmer" as well. In April 1924, Stanford's assistant director of physical education, Harry Maloney, called Nevers "a freak genius" who also excelled in the classroom.<ref name=NSJ>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

1924–25 academic year

As a junior, Nevers was sidelined for most of the football season after suffering two broken ankles. Under head coach Pop Warner, the 1925 Stanford football team won the Pacific Coast Conference championship with a 7–0–1 record in the regular season before losing to Notre Dame and the famous Four Horsemen backfield in the 1925 Rose Bowl. Five days after having a cast removed from one of his ankles, Nevers played all 60 minutes of the Rose Bowl, averaged 42 yards on his punts, and carried the ball 34 times for 114 yards, only 13 yards less than all the Four Horsemen combined.<ref>Template:College Football HoF</ref>

Nevers again proved to be a multi-sport star, competing for Stanford's basketball and baseball teams in the winter and spring of 1925. A newspaper account from February 1925 stated that he was "pressing for honors as the best all around athlete in the annals of the west."<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> During the summer of 1925, Nevers worked for the Starrett Meat Company in Guerneville, California, and pitched for the town's baseball team.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

1925 season

As a senior, Nevers and Pop Warner led the 1925 Stanford football team to a 7–2 record. At the end of the 1925 season, Nevers was a consensus All-American, receiving first-team honors from, among others, the All-America Board, the Associated Press, Collier's Weekly, the International News Service, Liberty magazine, the Newspaper Enterprise Association, and Athlete & Sportsman magazine.

Professional football and baseball player

Jacksonville football team

In December 1925, Nevers received between $25,000 and $35,000 to play professional football for a team in Jacksonville, Florida. Nevers' team played two exhibition games against NFL opponents: the Chicago Bears, led by Red Grange, on January 2, and the New York Giants on January 9. However, meager crowds forced the team to fold after only two games.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref><ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

1926 St. Louis Browns

After his first venture with professional football ended, Nevers joined the St. Louis Browns of Major League Baseball. He appeared in 12 games, 11 as a pitcher, for the 1926 Browns, compiling a 2–4 win–loss record and a 4.46 earned run average (ERA) in 74-2/3 innings pitched. At the plate, he had a .185 batting average in 27 at bats.<ref name=BR>Template:Cite web</ref> Nevers threw the ball in an unusual underhand delivery. On August 13, 1926, in the highlight of Nevers' 1926 season, he pitched a complete game victory over the Detroit Tigers, giving up eight hits and two runs against a lineup that included Hall of Famers Ty Cobb, Heinie Manush, Charlie Gehringer, and Harry Heilmann, and Bob Fothergill who hit .367 that year.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

1926 Duluth Eskimos

In September 1926, Nevers left the Browns to play professional football for the Duluth Eskimos of the National Football League (NFL).<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> Nevers' childhood friend Ole Haugsrud owned the Eskimos. The 1926 Eskimos, with a 16-man roster, played a 29-game schedule and compiled a 19–7–3 record. Nevers reportedly played 1,714 minutes out of a possible 1,740 minutes that year.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> Highlights of Nevers' 1926 season included the following:

  • On September 19, 1926, in Nevers' first game for Duluth, the Eskimos played their only home game, defeating the Kansas City Cowboys, 7–0. Nevers scored the game's only touchdown, kicked the extra point, and was reportedly "here, there and everywhere performing in a triple threat role."<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>
  • On October 10, 1926, Nevers led the Eskimos to a 26–0 victory over the Hammond Pros. Nevers threw a touchdown pass to Joe Rooney and also scored a rushing touchdown.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>
  • On October 17, 1926, Nevers threw a touchdown pass, scored a rushing touchdown, and kicked three extra points in a 21–0 victory over the Racine Tornadoes.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>
  • On October 31, 1926, the Eskimos defeated the Milwaukee Badgers, 7–6. The Los Angeles Times described Nevers as "the whole show", noting that he threw a 35-yard touchdown pass to Rooney in the final five minutes and then kicked the extra point to give the Eskimos the victory.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>
  • On November 11, 1926, Nevers scored all 13 Duluth points (two rushing touchdowns and an extra point) in a 14–13 loss to the New York Giants. Nevers' second touchdown was scored in the fourth quarter, but his kick for extra point to tie the game was blocked by Tillie Voss.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>
  • On November 21, 1926, Nevers scored every point for the Eskimos in a 10–2 over the Canton Bulldogs. Nevers rushed for a touchdown and kicked a field goal and an extra point.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>
  • On November 27, 1926, Nevers scored every point in a 16–0 victory over the Hartford Blues. He kicked three field goals, including one from placement at the 45-yard line, scored a touchdown, and kicked an extra point. After the game, The Hartford Daily Courant wrote: "The men of Nevers type must be depended upon to build professional football if it is to survive."<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

Out of the 29 games played by the Eskimos in 1926, 14 are considered official by the NFL; in those games, Nevers scored 71 points on eight touchdowns, 11 extra points, and four field goals.<ref name=PFR/> At the end of his rookie season, Nevers was a consensus pick for the fullback position on the 1926 All-Pro Team, receiving first-team honors from Collyer's Eye magazine, the Chicago Tribune, and the Green Bay Press-Gazette.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

1927 St. Louis Browns

Nevers returned to the St. Louis Browns in 1927. He appeared in 33 games for the team, 27 as a pitcher, and compiled a 3–8 win–loss record and a 4.94 ERA in Template:Frac innings pitched and a .219 batting average in 32 at bats.<ref name=BR/> He is often remembered for having given up two home runs to Babe Ruth during the 1927 season in which Ruth broke the major league record with 60 home runs.<ref name=LAT76/>

1927 Duluth Eskimos

In 1927, Nevers became head coach of the Eskimos in addition to his regular position at fullback. The 1927 Eskimos compiled a 1–8 record and finished in 11th place in the NFL. Highlights of Nevers 1927 season included the following:

After the season, Nevers was again selected by the Green Bay Press-Gazette, based on the results of a questionnaires sent to the league managers and reporters, as the first-team fullback on the 1927 All-Pro Team.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

Mission Bells and Stanford football

Nevers career in Major League Baseball came to an end in the spring of 1928. In six games for the Browns, he compiled a 1–0 record and 3.00 ERA in nine innings pitched.<ref name=BR/> His final major league appearance was on May 4, 1928, at age 25.<ref name=BR/> Nevers was sold by the Browns for $7,500 to the Mission Bells, a Pacific Coast League baseball team in San Francisco, in late May 1928.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> He appeared in 35 games for the Reds in 1928, compiling a 14–11 record in 206 innings and batting .374 in 91 at bats.<ref name=BRM>Template:Cite web</ref> Nevers proved a draw for the Mission team, as Stanford fans and locals from Sonoma County flocked to see Nevers pitch.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

In March 1928, Nevers announced that he would not return to professional football that fall, opting instead to serve as an assistant coach to Pop Warner at Stanford.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> Nevers said of professional football: "I hurt my back last year and don't care to take any more chances."<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> He returned to Stanford in September 1928 as coach of the reserve football players.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

In February 1929, Nevers resigned from his coaching job at Stanford to return to the Mission baseball club in the PCL.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> He appeared in 41 games during the 1929 season and compiled a 7–8 win–loss record.<ref name=BRM/>

Chicago Cardinals

1929 season

In the fall of 1929, Nevers returned to the NFL to play fullback for the Chicago Cardinals. Highlights of Nevers' 1929 season include the following:

At the end of the 1929 season, Nevers was a consensus pick as the fullback on the 1929 All-Pro Team, receiving first-team honors from the Green Bay Press-Gazette, based on the return of 16 ballots sent to the team owners, managers, and sports writers of clubs in the NFL,<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> Collyer's Eye magazine,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and the Chicago Tribune.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

1930 season

In 1930, Nevers returned to the Cardinals as both head coach and fullback. Highlights of his 1930 season included:

  • On October 25, 1930, Nevers rushed for two touchdowns and kicked four extra points in a 34–7 victory over the Frankford Yellow Jackets.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>
  • On October 26, 1930, Nevers accounted for all 23 points in a 23–13 victory over the Portsmouth Spartans. In that game, Nevers threw a 29-yard touchdown pass to Cobb Rooney, ran for two touchdowns, and kicked a field goal and two extra points.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In a single weekend, with back-to back games against Frankford and Portsmouth, Nevers accounted for four rushing touchdowns, a passing touchdown, a field goal, and six extra points.
  • On November 16, 1930, Nevers led the Cardinals to a 13–6 victory over the 1930 NFL champion Green Bay Packers. The victory broke the Packers' 22-game winning streak. Nevers threw a touchdown pass to Bunny Belden, ran for a touchdown, and converted one of two extra point attempts to account for all of the Cardinals' points.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

At the end of the 1930 season, Nevers was again selected as the consensus first-team fullback on the 1930 All-Pro Team with Bronko Nagurski being picked for the second-team at the position.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

1931 season

Nevers returned to the Cardinals as fullback and head coach in 1931. Highlights of his seasons included:

  • On November 1, 1931, Nevers led the Cardinals to a 14–7 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers. Nevers averaged 52 yards on his punts in the game, threw a 23-yard touchdown pass to Kassell, rushed for a touchdown, and kicked two extra points.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>
  • On November 15, 1931, the Cardinals defeated the Green Bay Packers, 21–13, giving the Packers their first loss of the year. Nevers threw two touchdown passes and kicked three extra points in the game. The Associated Press called it "one of [Nevers'] greatest exhibitions".<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> The Packers went on to win the 1931 NFL championship.
  • On November 22, 1931, Nevers ran for two touchdowns and kicked two extra points as the Cardinals defeated the Portsmouth Spartans, 20–19.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>
  • In his final NFL game, played before a crowd of 1,500 at Wrigley Field on November 29, 1931, Nevers led the Cardinals to a 21–0 victory over the Cleveland Indians. Nevers accounted for every point scored in the game with a 44-yard touchdown pass to Malloy, two rushing touchdowns, and three extra points.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

At the end of the 1931 season, Nevers was again selected (for the fifth time in five years in the NFL) as the fullback on the All-Pro Team, receiving first-team honors from the Green Bay Press-Gazette based on the returns of ballots sent to each club in the league as well as sports writers and officials,<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> the United Press,<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> and Collyer's Eye.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

On January 25, 1932, Nevers broke his wrist on the final play of a charity football game in San Francisco. Afterward, Nevers announced his retirement as a player, stating that he was getting out while he was "still in one piece," and expressing a desire to pursue a career as a coach.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

Coaching career

In March 1932, Nevers was hired as an assistant coach under Pop Warner at Stanford. His initial assignment was to coach the "goof squad".<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> At the end of the 1932 season, Warner resigned as Stanford's head coach, but Nevers remained as an assistant coach under Tiny Maxwell through the 1935 season. During that time, Stanford won three consecutive Pacific Coast Conference championships and played in the 1934, 1935, and 1936 Rose Bowls.

In January 1936, Nevers resigned his position at Stanford to accept the head coaching job at Lafayette College.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> Nevers was welcomed to the Easton, Pennsylvania, campus with a parade and street celebration as classes were suspended for the day and Lafayette students anticipated the school's "return to 'Big Time' position" of previous years.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> The 1936 Lafayette team compiled a 1–8 record.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In March 1937, Nevers resigned his post at Lafayette upon being appointed backfield and ends coach for the University of Iowa under head coach Irl Tubbs. Tubbs had been Nevers' high school football coach in Superior, Wisconsin.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> Nevers coached at Iowa for two years during which time the team compiled records of 1–7 in 1937 and 1–6–1 in 1938.

In December 1938, after the Chicago Cardinals had compiled a 2–9 record during the 1938 season, Nevers was hired as the team's head coach.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> The 1939 Cardinals compiled a 1–10 record. In February 1940, Nevers resigned from the Cardinals, saying he wished to reside permanently in San Francisco.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref><ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

Awards and honors

Nevers received numerous honors and awards during and after his playing career, including the following:

Family, military service, and later years

Nevers was married to Mary Elizabeth "Mae" Heagerty in February 1926 in San Francisco.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

On August 20, 1938, Nevers served as an official for a golf match at Duluth, Minnesota, between blind golfers Clinton F. Russell of Duluth and Dr. W. H. I. Oxenham of England, both of whom had been featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In September 1942, Nevers enlisted at age 39 in the United States Marine Corps; he was given the rank of captain.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> In the spring of 1943, he was stationed at the Olds Gunnery School in Lansing, Michigan.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> While Nevers was stationed at a Marine base in Santa Barbara, California, his wife became ill with pneumonia; she died in a San Francisco hospital in July 1943.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> Nevers left for the South Pacific theater of World War II in October 1943.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> In April 1944, he was reported by the Associated Press to have been stationed for the past several months with a marine amphibious unit in the Pacific.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> In October 1944, Nevers returned to San Francisco after spending 10 months in charge of ground personnel with a squadron in the South Pacific.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> In December 1944, while stationed at Naval Station Treasure Island in San Francisco, Nevers was promoted to the rank of major.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> In February 1945, he became the athletic officer at the Marine Corps base in San Diego.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

At the end of February 1945, Nevers agreed to serve as an assistant coach with the Chicago Rockets of the All-America Football Conference upon his discharge from the Marine Corps.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> As of mid-May 1945, Nevers was awaiting his discharge papers and had become associated with a trucking company pending the commencement of his coaching duties with the Rockets.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> Nevers ultimately served in the fall of 1946 as the backfield coach for the Rockets.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

Nevers was remarried to Margery Luxem Railton of Chicago in February 1947. It was the second marriage for both.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> They had a daughter, Tina (born May 1948),<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> Ernie Nevers also had a son, Gene Sullivan (born Aug 1947).

After retiring from football, Nevers lived in Strawberry and then Tiburon, both in Marin County, California, and worked in public relations and sales promotion for a wine association and a wholesale liquor company.<ref name=LAT76/><ref name=SC51/><ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> In 1950, Nevers and his wife had a television show broadcast on Friday nights on KGO in San Francisco.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> In September 1954, Nevers began another television show known as "Out on a Limb With Ernie Nevers".<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

Nevers died in May 1976 at age 73 at Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, California.<ref name=LAT76>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> Press accounts differed as to the cause of his death, one indicating that he had been suffering from a kidney disorder,<ref name=CT76>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> and another saying he had been under treatment for a heart condition.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> He was buried at Mount Tamalpais Cemetery in San Rafael, California.

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