Budge Garrett

Alfred Tennyson Garrett was a professional football player with the Akron Pros of the American Professional Football Association (renamed the National Football League in 1922). During his one year with the Pros he won the first AFPA/NFL Championship. He returned to the NFL in 1922 as a player-coach for the Milwaukee Badgers, compiling a 2-1-3 record.

Budge Garrett
Born:(1893-04-17)April 17, 1893
Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States
Died:June 11, 1950(1950-06-11) (aged 57)[1]
Verona, New Jersey, United States
Career information
Position(s)Fullback/End/Guard
Height5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Weight200 lb (91 kg)
CollegeRutgers
Career history
As coach
1922Milwaukee Badgers
As player
1917Youngstown Patricians
1917–1919Massillon Tigers
1920Akron Pros
1922Milwaukee Badgers
Career highlights and awards
  • NFL Champion (1920)
  • 1× All-American (1915)

Prior to joining the NFL, Garrett grew up in Oklahoma on a Creek Indian Reservation. He later attended a played college football at Rutgers University. He later made the 1915 College Football All-America Team. He first played professional football for the Massillon Tigers and Youngstown Patricians of the "Ohio League", during the pre-NFL era.

References

  • Pellowski, Michael J. (2007). Rutgers Football: A Gridiron Tradition in Scarlet. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-4283-6.

Notes

  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2012-12-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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