1. Alfred Earle "Greasy" Neale was an American football and baseball player and coach.
18 Facts About Greasy Neale
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Greasy Neale played Major League Baseball as an outfielder with the Cincinnati Reds between 1916 and 1924 and briefly with the Philadelphia Phillies for part of the 1921 season.
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Greasy Neale was the starting right fielder for the championship-winning 1919 Reds.
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Greasy Neale spent all but 22 games of his baseball career with the Reds.
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Greasy Neale played professional football in the Ohio League with the Canton Bulldogs in 1917, the Dayton Triangles in 1918, and the Massillon Tigers in 1919.
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Greasy Neale starred as an end on Jim Thorpe's pre-World War I Canton Bulldogs as well as the Dayton Triangles in 1918 and Massillon Tigers in 1919.
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Greasy Neale began his coaching career while still a professional player.
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Greasy Neale served as an assistant football coach with Yale Bulldogs football for seven seasons.
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In 1927 and 1928, Greasy Neale managed the Clarksburg Generals of the Middle Atlantic League.
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Greasy Neale returned to the club late into the 1928 season.
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In 1929, Greasy Neale joined the coaching staff of the St Louis Cardinals.
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Greasy Neale started the season as the team's third base coach, but was demoted to the Rochester Red Wings along with manager Billy Southworth on July 24,1929.
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In 1931, Greasy Neale returned to college coaching as the head football coach at West Virginia.
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Greasy Neale moved to the National Football League, to serve as the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles from 1941 to 1950.
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From 1944 through 1949, Greasy Neale's Eagles finished second three times and in first place three times.
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Greasy Neale's offense was led by the passing of quarterback Tommy Thompson, the pass catching of future Hall of Fame end Pete Pihos, and the running of another Hall of Famer, Steve Van Buren.
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Greasy Neale was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1967 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1969.
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Greasy Neale died in Lake Worth Beach, Florida, at the age of 81 and was later interred in Parkersburg Memorial Gardens in West Virginia.