Guy Chamberlin Gets New Home Town Recognition with Monument in His Honor

Pillars of the NFL Includes Coverage of Guy Chamberlin's Career

Guy Chamberlin won his NFL championships in the 1920s and he also was a player-coach for championship teams that no longer exist: The Canton Bulldogs, the Cleveland Bulldogs, and the Frankford Yellow Jackets.  He has a fan base in Nebraska where the University of Nebraska Chamberlin Award has been given out each year since his death, but his NFL reputation has grown somewhat dim over the years because he had no NFL base like coaches whose teams have carried on to this day.  He is one of the ten coaches whose football lives we examine in our new book, Pillars of the NFL: Coaches Who Have Won Three or More Championships. 

Recent efforts to recognize or at least renew his recognition as one of the NFL's greatest coaches have been building.  The University of Nebraska has been recognizing great players with the annual Chamberlin Award since the great man's death. The award is presented to the senior player who has shown by the play and contributions to the team that he has the qualities and dedication of Guy Chamberlin to the Cornhusker tradition.  Folks back home at the Gage County Historical Society, the Wymore Library,  and now his home town, Blue Springs have worked to see Chamberlin recognized and remembered.  A monument in Chamberlin's honor was recently constructed and placed on ground near where the High School that Chamberlin attended once existed.