James Ralph "Sully" Montgomery (January 12, 1901 – September 5, 1970) was an American professional football player and boxer. Montgomery played college football for the Centre Praying Colonels of Centre College in

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. He came there from the state of

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. Montgomery played professionally in the

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(NFL) for the

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and Frankford Yellow Jackets. After football, Montgomery was a professional boxer. He was the sheriff of

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from 1946 to 1952, but resigned after being convicted of

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. Montgomery played for North Side High School in

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for coach Robert L. Myers. Rogers Hornsby was on that team. Bo McMillin and

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both also played there, later meeting up with Red Roberts at Somerset (Ky.) High School. McMillin, Weaver, and Roberts joined up with Montgomery as well as Matty Bell, Bill James, and Bob Mathias from the Fort Worth high school at Centre College with their old coach Myers. The team went 7–1 in 1917, so good that Myers supposedly felt himself unable to coach them, and thus hired Charley Moran. The 1919 team went 9–0. Montgomery was a tackle on Centre's all-time football team chosen in 1935.

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* 1901 births 1970 deaths American football tackles Centre Colonels football players Chicago Cardinals players Frankford Yellow Jackets players All-Southern college football players Players of American football from Fort Worth, Texas People from Itasca, Texas American male boxers 20th-century American people {{US-boxing-bio-stub