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Place of birth:
  
Itasca, Texas

Role
  
American football player

Height
  
1.91 m


Weight:
  
213 lb (97 kg)

Education
  
Name
  
Sully Montgomery

Positions
  
Tackle

Date of birth:
  
(1901-01-12)January 12, 1901

Date of death:
  
September 5, 1970(1970-09-05) (aged 69)

High school:
  
North Side (Fort Worth, TX)

Died
  
September 5, 1970, Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Place of death:
  

Sully Montgomery: Football Tackle


James Ralph "Sully" Montgomery (January 12, 1901 – September 5, 1970) was an American football player and boxer. Montgomery played college football for the Centre Praying Colonels of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. He came there from the state of Texas. Montgomery played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) for the Chicago Cardinals and Frankford Yellow Jackets. After football, Montgomery was a professional boxer. He was the sheriff of Tarrant County, Texas from 1946 to 1952

Montgomery played for North Side High School in Fort Worth, Texas for coach Robert L. Myers. Rogers Hornsby was on that team. Bo McMillan and Red Weaver both also played there, later meeting up with Red Roberts at Somerset (Ky.) High School. McMillan, Weaver, and Roberts joined up with Montgomery as well as Matty Bell, Bill James, and Bob Mathias from the Fort Worth high school at Centre College with their old coach Myers. The team went 7–1 in 1917, so good that Myers supposedly felt himself unable to coach them, and thus hired Charley Moran. The 1919 team went 9–0. Montgomery was a tackle on Centre's all-time football team chosen in 1935.

References

Sully Montgomery Wikipedia


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