Jimmy Conzelman
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James Gleason Dunn Conzelman (March 6, 1898-70), an American football player, baseball executive, and advertising executive.
In 1964, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and in 1969 as a quarterback on the National Football League's All-Decade Team. Conzelman, a native of St. Louis, Conzelman, played for the 1918 Great Lakes Navy Bluejackets team, which won the 1919 Rose Bowl.
He was an All-Missouri Valley Conference quarterback for the Washington University Pikers football team in 1919.
He spent ten seasons as a quarterback, halfback, placekicker, and mentor in the National Football League (1920–1924), Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1922–1929), and Providence Steam Roller (1927–1929).
He was also a team owner in Detroit and, as player-coach, led the 1928 Providence Steam Roller team to an NFL championship. Conzelman, the Washington University Bears' football coach, coached the team to the Missouri Valley Conference championships in 1934, 1935, and 1939.
He served as head coach of the Chicago Cardinals from 1940 to 1942, and then from 1946 to 1948.
In 1947 and 1948, he led the Cardinals to an NFL championship and Western Division championships.
He was also an executive with the St. Louis Browns in Major League Baseball from 1943 to 1945.
Early years
In 1898, Conzelman was born James Gleason Dunn in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the son of James Dunn and Marguerite Ryan, but his father died when he was still a child. Oscar Conzelman, his mother's 1902 husband, adopted him.
Conzelman attended Loyola Academy and later Central High School in St. Louis. In 1914, he played football at Central High as a halfback. Conzelman attended McKinley High School after a realignment of high school districts in 1915. Conzelman, the quarterback of the football team, competed on the basketball and track teams, and was president of the boys' athletic association, and served as sergeant-at-arms of the Class of 1916. He coached the 1915 McKinley football team to a championship.
Personal life
Conzelman was married three times. In October 1923, he married Peggy Udell (or Unertl), a Ziegfeld Follies performer. Udell filed a divorce petition in July 1924, requesting the support for an unborn child. Following the birth of the child, the trial of the divorce case was postponed in July 1925. In 1930, Conzelman and Udell were finally divorced. In October 1935, Conzelman's second marriage to Lilian Adele Conzelman ended in divorce. In 1936, he married Anna Forrestal, his third wife. James D. Conzelman, Jr., the son of Conzelman and his third wife had a boy named James D. Conzelman, Jr. At the time of Conzelman's death, they were married.
Conzelman died in July 1970 at the age of 72 at Missouri Baptist Hospital. He was buried at the Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum in St. Louis.
Coaching career
In 1922, Conzelman was a player/manager for the Rock Island Islanders minor league baseball team of the Class D level Mississippi Valley League. Conzelman hit .244 in 104 games for the Islanders, who finished in 3rd place with a 66–63 record.
In the fall of 1931, Conzelman served as the head coach of the St. Louis Gunners, an independent professional football team sponsored by a local field artillery unit of the National Guard. The Gunners posted a 5–2–1 record in 1931. After a game against the NFL's Chicago Cardinals, Chicago captain Ernie Nevers called the Gunners the "best independent club we have ever faced."
In January 1932, Conzelman returned to Washington University in St. Louis as the school's head football coach. He became the school's first alumnus to lead the football team. Over the next eight years, Conzelman led Washington University Bears football team to Missouri Valley Conference championships in 1934, 1935, and 1939, and compiled an overall record of 40–35–2.
In January 1940, Conzelman tendered his resignation as head coach of the Washington University football team, but the resignation was not accepted by the athletic board. The university chancellor directed Conzelman to attend an alumni rally in his support. Conzelman appeared and announced that he would not withdraw his resignation, though he would continue to support the program from the outside. Newspaper accounts indicate that he may have been fired under pressure from a powerful "anti-Conzelman" group of alumni in downtown St. Louis.
In April 1940, Conzelman was hired as the head coach of the NFL's Chicago Cardinals. He replaced Ernie Nevers in the position. In his first stint as head coach of the Cardinals, Conzelmean served three years with the Cardinals from 1940 to 1942, leading the club to a combined three-year record of 8–22.
Conzelman's tenure as head coach of the Cardinals was interrupted by a two-years stint as an administrator in Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Browns. In June 1943, he resigned his job as head coach of the Cardinals and was hired as director of public relations and assistant to Donald Lee Barnes, president and owner of the Browns. He remained with the Browns for two years and was said to be the "secret weapon" of the 1944 St. Louis Browns team that won the American League pennant. Conzelman resigned his post with the club in August 1945.
In late November 1945, Conzelman was hired for a second time to serve as head coach of the Chicago Cardinals starting with the 1946 NFL season. During the 1947 season, the Cardinals with their "Million Dollar Backfield" compiled a 9–3 record and defeated the Philadelphia Eagles in the 1947 NFL Championship Game. Conzelman's 1948 Cardinals team compiled an 11–1 record during the regular season, led the NFL in offense with an average of 32.9 points per game, and lost to the Eagles in the 1948 NFL Championship Game. In their second stint under Conzelman, the Cardinals compiled a 26–9 record from 1946 to 1948.
On January 7, 1949, three weeks after the loss in the 1948 Championship Game, Conzelman resigned as the Cardinals' head coach. He had been working for D'Arcy Advertising Co. for the prior two years during the off-season and stated that he was resigning his coaching position to devote his full efforts to the advertising firm. The Cardinals' management said at the time that Conzelman's resignation was unexpected and "came like a bolt from the blue."