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Charlie Guy

Charlie Guy
No. 11
Position: Guard, Center
Personal information
Date of birth: (1896-12-05)December 5, 1896
Place of birth: Schenectady, New York
Date of death: April 9, 1974(1974-04-09) (aged 77)
Place of death: Tampa, Florida
Height: 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight: 170 lb (77 kg)
Career information
High school: Pinkerton Academy (NH)
College: Washington & Jefferson College
Dartmouth College
Career history
Career highlights and awards
  • Canton Daily News: 1st team All-NFL (1923)
  • GB Press-Gazette: 3rd team All-NFL (1923)
Career NFL statistics
Player stats at NFL.com
Player stats at PFR
Player stats at NFL.com

Charles Howgate Guy (December 5, 1896 – April 9, 1974) was an American football player. He played college football for Dartmouth College and Washington & Jefferson College and professional football in the National Football League for five teams between 1920 and 1924. He was selected as an All-NFL player in 1923.

Guy was born in 1896 at Schenectady, New York. He attended secondary school at the Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hampshire. His father was Charles S. Guy, an immigrant from England. His mother was Carrie Guy.

Guy played college football at Dartmouth College and Washington & Jefferson College.

Prior to the United States entering World War I, Guy left Washington & Jefferson when he was accepted into the American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps. His February 1917 passport application to travel to France for that purpose was personally sponsored by Eliot Norton, a member of the family that organized the Ambulance Corps (aka the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps). He traveled to England on the SS Lapland, arriving in September 1917. After the United States entered the war, Guy served in the U.S. Army infantry from September 1918 to December 1919. He attained the rank of second lieutenant.

In September 1920, the National Football League (called the American Professional Football Association during the 1920 and 1921 seasons) was founded at a meeting in the Hupmobile auto showroom of the owner of the Canton Bulldogs. In the inaugural season of the NFL, Guy played at the guard position for the 1920 Detroit Heralds. The Heralds opened the 1920 season with a game against the Cleveland Panthers, played at Navin Field on October 10, 1920. The Heralds won by a 40-14 score. After "a mix-up" with Guy and teammate Gil Runkel, Cleveland's star halfback Arnold Vogel was carried off the field in the fourth quarter with a broken left shoulder and three broken ribs; he was taken to Detroit Receiving Hospital for medical treatment. The Detroit Free Press called it "a rough and tumble match."


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