Budge Garrett

Budge Garrett

Personal information
Born:	(1893-04-17)April 17, 1893 Muskogee, Oklahoma
Died:	June 11, 1950(1950-06-11) (aged 57) Verona, New Jersey
Height:	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Weight:	200 lb (91 kg)
Career information
High school:	Peddie School (Hightstown, New Jersey)
College:	Rutgers
Position:	Fullback, End, Guard
Career history
As a player:
Youngstown Patricians (1917) Massillon Tigers (1917–1919) Akron Pros (1920) Milwaukee Badgers (1922)
As a coach:
Milwaukee Badgers (1922)
Career highlights and awards
NFL champion (1920) All-American (1915)
Career NFL statistics
Games played: 13 Games started: 6
Head coaching record
Career:	2–1–3 (.583)
Player stats at NFL.com · PFR
Coaching stats at PFR

Alfred Tennyson Garrett (1893-1950) was a professional football player with the Akron Pros of the American Professional Football Association (renamed the National Football League in 1922). During his one year with the Pros he won the first AFPA/NFL Championship. He returned to the NFL in 1922 as a player-coach for the Milwaukee Badgers, compiling a 2–1–3 record.

Prior to joining the NFL, Garrett grew up in Oklahoma on a Creek Indian Reservation. He later attended a played college football at Rutgers University. He later made the 1915 College Football All-America Team. He first played professional football for the Massillon Tigers and Youngstown Patricians of the "Ohio League", during the pre-NFL era.

References

• Pellowski, Michael J. (2007). Rutgers Football: A Gridiron Tradition in Scarlet. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-4283-6.