Thursday, December 6, 2018

Guy Chamberlin Award Given

Guy Chamberlin won his NFL championships in the 1920s and he was also was a player-coach for championship teams that no longer exist: The Canton Bulldogs, the Cleveland Bulldogs, and the Frankford Yellow Jackets.  The NFL provides a tremendous amount of notoriety for players and coaches, but history is sometimes forgotten. And history for teams that don't exist today can be hard to find.

Guy Chamberlin has a fan base in Nebraska where the University of Nebraska Chamberlin Award has been given out each year since his death.  The University recently announced this years recipient, wide receiver Stanley Morgan Jr. 

At Sporting Chance Press we joined local efforts to work towards more "awareness" of the great Guy Chamberlin and we also published a great book on ten of the greatest coaches in NFL history: Pillars of the NFL: Coaches Who Have Won Three or More ChampionshipsChamberlin's grandson, Rob Sherwood, was a substantial help to us and he provided a few photographs. There were some hard-to-find newspapers stories and other sources that Rob helped point us toward. 

Folks back home at the Gage County Historical Society, the Wymore Library,  and 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. 

A Facebook page was created for the monument and many posts were added especially back in 2014. We still have a good supply of  Pillars of the NFL, a perfect way to preserve the legacy of Guy Chamberlin in the home and community.  His coverage in the book was certainly a labor of love by the author and many others who helped us along.