Notes for: Alfred Earle "Greasy" Neale

A native of Parkersburg, Earle "Greasy" Neale was one of West Virginia's most gifted athletes, successfully playing football, baseball, basketball and golf. He played football for West Virginia Wesleyan University where, as an end, he caught fourteen consecutive passes in leading his team to their first victory ever over West Virginia University. He went on to play Major League baseball for eight seasons, and was also a highly successful college and professional football coach, taking Washington & Jefferson College to the 1922 Rose Bowl and leading the Philadelphia Eagles to NFL championships in 1948 and 1949. In 1967 he was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame, and in 1969 to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He was the first coach to be inducted as such into both halls and the only man to play in a World Series, coach in a Rose Bowl and be enshrined in the Professional Football Hall of Fame.