Talk:Walter Mayberry

A fact from Walter Mayberry appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 June 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Walter "Tiger" Mayberry, a running back inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great", died in a Japanese POW camp on the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea?

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I take it the Rams never did offer him a contract he considered worthwhile? Lizard (talk) 02:49, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I guess not - never figured that out either. Cake (talk) 02:56, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

LSU's first player drafted also never played professionally. The first one who did wasn't too shabby either. Lizard (talk) 03:04, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Cy Williams was UF's first NFL player, nearly a decade before Mayberry. Cake (talk) 03:10, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This article from Sept. 1938 says he took a coaching position rather than play with the Rams. See also this and this. Cbl62 (talk) 03:13, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Cbl. There's a "Mayberry Quits Gridiron" article behind a paywall from the Palm Beach Post. Cake (talk) 03:28, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Here it is. Cbl62 (talk) 13:26, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Doubly thanks! Was just lamenting and not expecting the magic. Cake (talk) 15:03, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]