Ernest Alonzo Nevers was an American football and baseball player and football coach. He played as a fullback and was a triple-threat man known for his talents in running, passing, and kicking. Nevers played professional football in the National Football League for the Duluth Eskimos in 1926 and 1927 and the Chicago Cardinals from 1929 to 1931. He 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 in 1928 and 1929.
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Ernest Alonzo Nevers was an American football and baseball player and football coach. He played as a fullback and was a triple-threat man known for his talents in running, passing, and kicking. Nevers played professional football in the National Football League for the Duluth Eskimos in 1926 and 1927 and the Chicago Cardinals from 1929 to 1931. He 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 in 1928 and 1929. He was inducted into both the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951 and the Pro Football Hall Of Fame in 1963. He set an NFL record that still stands by scoring 40 points in a single game in 1929. In the same game he subsequently set another NFL record by scoring six rushing touchdowns in a 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. His parents, George and Mary Ann Nevers, were immigrants to the United States from New Brunswick, Canada. In addition to Ernie, they had five sons and one daughter. Nevers attended and graduated from Santa Rosa High School where he was a star athlete. He led the Santa Rosa football team to the NCS championship. In 1921, he attended Santa Rosa Junior College and was the star of the school’s football team.
In 1922, Nevers enrolled at Stanford University and played for the freshman football team at fullback and halfback in the fall of 1922. In 1925, he was selected by Walter Camp as the third-team fullback on the 1923 College Football All-America Team. In April 1924, assistant director of physical education, Harry Maloney, called Nevers ‘a freak genius who excelled in the classroom’ Nevers also played for Stanford’s basketball, baseball and track teams and 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. He won the 1925 Rose Bowl, averaging 42 yards on his punts, and carried the ball 34 times for 114 yards, only 13 yards less than the Four Horsemen combined in the regular season. 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 played all 60 minutes after having a cast removed from one of his ankles after having had two broken ankles. He went on to be a multi-port star competing for Stanford, competing in the Rose Bowl in 1925 and 1926. In 1926, he won the Pacific Conference championship with a 7–0–1–1 record with a regular season record in theRegular Conference. In 1927, he led the Stanford team to a 7-0-1–0 record before losing to Notre Dame and the famous Rose Bowl.
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