Charlie Berry: Football and Baseball Legend

October 18, 1902 – Phillipsville, New Jersey – Charlie Berry, the end from Lafayette College, was born.

Charlie played collegiate football from 1921 through 1924 for the Leopards. Berry earned the distinction of making Walter Camp’s last handpicked All-America Team just a short time before the innovator of football’s untimely death.

Per the National Football Foundation’s article on Charlie, in his four years at Lafayette, the Leopards compiled a record of 29-5-2, with the 1921 team going undefeated. Charlie went on to play professionally for the NFL’s Pottsville Maroons and was the equivalent of being an All-Pro. You can learn a great deal more about Charlie and the Maroons saga in our book Marooned: The Rise, The Fall, and the Redemption of the Pottsville Maroons.

The great athlete played in the major leagues of pro baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Sox, and Chicago White Sox, and even umpired in the MLB. The National Football Foundation selected Charlie Berry to enter the College Football Hall of Fame in 1980.