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“Wild” Bill Kelly - Cool Biography
- Thread starter Jordan_20
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Boy, the article states that Wild Bill Kelly was a Phi Sigma Kappa (Phi Sig) fraternity member in 20s while at UM. I was a Phi Sig in the late 60s. A frat brother.
Thanks for the article.
Thanks for the article.
alabamagrizzly
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Jordan_20 said:
Great story. My signature is from this article. Read it several years ago and loved how relevant it still is today.
Great read on one of the all time great Griz football players. After reading it, I looked at his HOF bio and noticed a discrepancy. The Schwartz biography says Wild Bill played professional football for the New York Yankees football (AFL, NFL) teams in 1927 and 1928, then for the Frankford Yellow Jackets in 1929, and for the Brooklyn Dodgers football team (NFL) in 1930. The Grizzley Sports Hall of Fame biography says Wild Bill "Played two years of baseball professionally with the old New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers". The Schwartz biography does say Kelly liked baseball better, and played on the Griz baseball team for 3 years (1925-1927), and did play some semi-professional baseball, but it makes no mention of Kelly playing major league baseball. So it appears the HOF bio is incorrect., and that the reference the Yankees and Dodgers should be for football and not baseball. I didn't know there were Yankee and Dodger professional football teams either until I researched this discrepancy.
montanaguy
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I searched for video of Wild Bill after reading the article but came up with nothing. Anybody know if video of him exists? I realize 'moving picture' cameras weren't common back then.
