Budge Garrett

Budge Garrett

Date of birth	April 17, 1893
Place of birth	Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States
Date of death	June 11, 1950 (aged 57)[1]
Place of death	Verona, New Jersey, United States
Career information
Position(s)	Fullback/End/Guard
Height	5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Weight	200 lb (91 kg)
College	Rutgers
Career history
As coach
1922	Milwaukee Badgers
As player
1917	Youngstown Patricians
1917-1919	Massillon Tigers
1920	Akron Pros
1922	Milwaukee Badgers
Career highlights and awards
NFL Champion (1920) 1x All-American (1915)

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, compling a 2-1-3 record.

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 0-8135-4283-9.

Notes

1. http://www.profootballarchives.com/garr00200.html