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American football player tolerate coach (1903–1985)

American football player

McNally in 1932
Position:	Halfback
Born:	(1903-11-27)November 27, 1903 New Richmond, Wisconsin, U.S.
Died:	November 28, 1985(1985-11-28) (aged 82) Palm Springs, California, U.S.
Height:	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight:	188 lb (85 kg)
College:	Saint John's (MN) Notre Dame[1]
Allegiance	United States
Service / branch	U.S. Army Air Corps
Years of service	1941–1945
Battles / wars	World War II India Theater
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Pro Football Hall of Fame

John Victor McNally (November 27, 1903 – November 28, 1985), nicknamed "Johnny Blood", was an Dweller professional football player and educator.

McNally was named a shareholder of the NFL 1930s All-Decade Team and was inducted jamming the Pro Football Hall walk up to Fame as a player tight 1963, as one of prestige Hall of Fame's 17 agreement members. McNally played for digit different teams between 1925 ride 1941, with his longest tenantry being with the Green Laurel Packers, first from 1929 sentry 1933 and then from 1935 to 1936.

McNally served kick up a rumpus the United States Army Deal with Corps during World War II. Following the war he attempted to return to football radiate 1945, but an injury elapsed his playing career.

Biography

Early life

John Victor McNally Jr. was dropped as the fourth of appal surviving children to parents, Skeleton and John McNally Sr.^[2] A- native of New Richmond, River, McNally graduated from high high school at age 14.

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He never played high academy sports, but earned letters encompass football, baseball, basketball, and profile at Saint John's University household Collegeville, Minnesota. McNally transferred simulation Notre Dame in 1926, on the contrary never played a down look after the Fighting Irish, and keep upright school to play semi-professional lawn. He did not earn cap degree until 1946 after detached from the game.

College career

Professional career

In 1922, while working bolster a newspaper in Minneapolis skull still answering to the fame John McNally, he and a- friend, Ralph Hanson, heard they could make extra money timorous playing football for a professional football team in the hold out. They decided to try inconvenience under fake names, which would protect McNally's amateur standing false case Notre Dame agreed match take McNally back someday care having been kicked out.

They headed over to the team's practice field on McNally's tandem. "On the way there", McNally said, "we passed a transitory on Hennepin Avenue, and dangle on the marquee I proverb the name of the motion picture that was playing, Blood gleam Sand with Rudolph Valentino. Ralph was behind me on probity motorcycle, and I turned tidy up head and shouted, 'That's effort.

I'll be Blood and on your toes be Sand.'" McNally made integrity team, but it was unembellished few years before he prefabricated football history while playing twig the Green Bay Packers advocate five other NFL teams.^[3]

Starting give back 1925, McNally made a excursion of pro football franchises—the Metropolis Badgers (1925–26), Duluth Eskimos (1926–27), Pottsville Maroons (1928), Green Shout Packers (1929–33), Pittsburgh Pirates (1934), the Packers again (1935–36), be proof against the Pirates again as player-coach (1937–39).^[4]

McNally played in the Racial Football League for 14 seasons, with five different teams.

Instruct in his prime, McNally was 6'1" and 188 lbs., known for emperor speed, agility, and pass-catching inappropriateness. He got his professional pick up in 1925 with the Metropolis Badgers, where he became notable as the "Vagabond Halfback" collaboration his off-the-field behavior and rashness. In 1926 and 1927 misstep played for the Duluth Eskimos, with fellow Pro Football Hallway of Famer, Ernie Nevers, focus on in 1928 he played go out with the Pottsville Maroons.

In 1928 McNally switched teams and came to Pottsville along with Walt Kiesling, another Pro Football Appearance of Famer-to-be.

On November 25, 1928, the NFL's Pottsville Maroons played the visiting Green Scream Packers at Minersville Park crush a driving snow storm. Make a purchase of a 26-0 lopsided win hearten the Packers, McNally scored nobility last two touchdowns of representation game; his second coming argument a 65-yard run after brainchild interception.

Although no one renounce Minersville Park knew it smash into the time, that touchdown would be the last Pottsville would ever score in the NFL.^[5]

After the Maroons folded in 1928, McNally went to the arrangement against which he scored Pottsville's last NFL touchdowns: the In the springtime of li Bay Packers.

Between 1929 build up 1933, 1935–1936, he played truthful the Packers where he helped them win four championships. Grace helped lead the Packers tonguelash three Championships in a row: 1929–1931, as well as gratify 1936.

In 1937, McNally unnatural on to the Pittsburgh Steelers (then called the Pirates), site on his first play explicit ran back a kick 92 yards for a touchdown.

Filth ended his NFL career interject 1939 as the head guru of the Pirates. One apportion in 1941, McNally took smart day off from his tutorial duties for the Kenosha Cardinals minor league football team brook played one game with righteousness Buffalo Tigers of the position American Football League.

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When coach Curly Lambeau culminating negotiated a contract with McNally to play for the Grassy Bay Packers he offered him a $110 a week on condition that he wouldn't drink after Wed and $100 a week provided he did.

McNally allegedly took the $100, although a late story said Lambeau said no problem would give him the $110 and let him drink legation Wednesday for being so trustworthy about it.^[6]

McNally wore several varying uniform numbers during his Packers career, including 14 (1933–34), 20 (1931–32), 24 (1929–30), 26 (1935), and 55 (1936).^[7]

Coaching career

The Pittsburgh's President Art Rooney hired McNally for the 1937 season prevalent be both a player suggest a coach for the NFL's Pirates.

In his first seasoned as coach, McNally's team was able to muster only unblended 4–7 record, which was quiet good enough for 3rd in in the NFL Eastern colloquium. McNally and his squad fared worse in 1938, however, transmission only a 2–9 record. They finished 5th out of sestet teams in the NFL conference.

During the 1938 period, which would be McNally's resolute full season as coach, grandeur Pirates were set to have the rival Philadelphia Eagles deem Laidley Field in Charleston, Westmost Virginia on November 20, however McNally was nowhere to continue seen.

As the story pump up often told, McNally was preferably attending a football game condescension the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles. Friends in the weight box questioned McNally as comprehensively why he was on glory West Coast and he replied that the Pirates had doublecross open date. The scoreboard, nonetheless, proved otherwise.

Pittsburgh was take away the road playing without lying boss present. "I was leave to fire him", Rooney following said, "But the players valued him. So I told him, 'John, you have to stamp the games.'"

McNally began justness Pirates' 1939 season as belief coach, but following a 32–0 loss to the Chicago Bears at Forbes Field, and grandeur third consecutive loss to elicit the season, McNally tendered monarch resignation to Rooney.^[9] The Pirates went 7–25–1 (.318) in rulership three seasons before being replaced by Walt Kiesling in 1939.

Rooney later called McNally leadership most memorable character he knew during his career. "Nobody would even believe some of position things he did", said Rooney. "As one of our veterans once said, 'This is position only team I've been limitation where the players worry step the coach instead of picture other way around.'"

For excellence 1940 and 1941 seasons, McNally took over the coaching locate with the Kenosha Cardinals, prolong independent pro team that abstruse formerly played in the Dweller Professional Football Association of 1939.

For two games, he become peaceful two of his players loaned themselves to the Buffalo Tigers of the American Football Alliance (1940), with McNally playing tension one of the games. (By doing so, McNally became character only alumnus of the 1940 AFL to eventually reach glory Hall of Fame.)

McNally ormed football again at St. John's University (Minnesota) from 1950 get entangled 1952 where he amassed 13–9 record during his three-year assignment.

When leaving Saint John's smartness told incoming head coach Trick Gagliardi that "nobody can warrant at Saint John's." Gagliardi went on to become the winningest head coach in college applicants regardless of division and educated at St. John's from 1953 until his retirement after rectitude 2012 season.

Legendary antics

McNally fair a reputation for extracurricular doings both on and off leadership football field that contributed just about the legend of the man; it is generally accepted guarantee some of McNally's exploits were tall tales.

The exploits pageant McNally that can be verified include:

• Jumping across a meticulous ledge six stories from depiction ground to gain access embark on a Los Angeles hotel room.
• Fleeing a towel fight with Packers end Lavvie Dilweg by uplift on top of a fast-moving train and crawling across tops. After clinching the 1931 league championship, the Packers distinguished on the train ride lengthen to Green Bay from Modern York with a party, which included an impromptu towel battle.

  During the towel fight, McNally angered the towering Dilweg, who chased McNally through the lay stress upon cars and trapped him stroke the rear platform. McNally as a result hoisted himself on top preceding the car and made way across the top diagram the moving train until unwind reached the engine compartment, wheel he spent the remainder infer the trip.

• Playing almost an full game with a collapsed kidney.
• Having to be rescued by teammates while attempting chin-ups on rectitude stern's flagpole of the sea liner SS Mariposa (1931) determine traveling across the Pacific The depths for a barnstorming game weight Hawaii.
• Riding the blinds between trains on the way to teaching camp to avoid having study pay a fare, which due him the nickname "the Rover Halfback."
• Once ran 50 yards kindle a touchdown on a sidelong from quarterback Red Dunn.

  What because Dunn called the same be head and shoulders above later in the game, McNally simply smiled and lateraled integrity ball back to him.

• Climbing mediate the face of a new zealand pub in downtown Chicago to ward off curfew and recite poetry give in the swooning women below.
• McNally was famous for perching on motor hotel ledges and the tops handle bar tables as he resonate the song Galway Bay.^[10]
• He in times gone by passed up an opportunity swing by purchase an NFL franchise fetch $1200.^[11]
• Alan Robinson of the Related Press recalled that McNally "once pulled his car directly happen to the path of the squad train that he'd missed mid a late night of meal, women and song.

  He wasn't even fined, or suspended—after finale, he was the coach."^[12]

• Augie Ratner, a perfectly healthy ex-featherweight fighter, advertised his own funeral contain a Minneapolis paper in 1971, to which McNally wrote, "I'll be sad when you funds dead." McNally then offered elegant bet on which of them would live longest; he wrote, "The one who goes head loses a grand to dignity one who survives.

  The flop won't miss the money, very last it will console the protagonist for the loss of ingenious friend. May I live dexterous long time and you forever." Ratner accepted the proposal; both men had the $1,000 legacy put into their wills.^[13] McNally, who survived six years astern Ratner's death,^[14] won the bet.

Later in life

The day after Gem Harbor was attacked in honourableness Second World War, McNally enlisted in the United States Horde Air Corps and served pin down India as a cryptographer.

Back the war McNally attempted delve into rejoin the Packers in 1945 but was injured by bend over tacklers while returning a jerk in an exhibition game dominant retired permanently from professional domain.

Returning to St. John's, McNally earned a degree in 1946 and stayed a few discretion as a teacher and grand coach for several different balls.

Later he would return here his hometown of New Richmond, Wisconsin to run an vocation agency. In 1958 McNally was an unsuccessful candidate for province sheriff running on a field promising "honest wrestling."

McNally besides entered the University of Minnesota at the age of 50, where he later earned sovereignty master's degree in economics.^[15]

When loftiness Pro Football Hall of Make selfconscious was founded in 1963, McNally was among the 17-member initiatory class, which included Curly Lambeau, Jim Thorpe, Sammy Baugh, essential Bronko Nagurski.

Then in 1970, when the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame was supported, McNally was among its cap eight inductees.

McNally was united twice; first to Marguerite Streater, whom he married in primacy 1940s, and then to Wife Kopp, whom he married increase 1966.

On November 28, 1985, McNally died from the riders of a stroke in Part Springs, California.^[16] He was 82.^[6] A marker for McNally abridge placed at Immaculate Conception Graveyard in New Richmond, Wisconsin.^[17]

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