(1894-01-16)January 16, 1894 Blue Springs, Nebraska, U.S.
Died:
April 4, 1967(1967-04-04) (aged 73) Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.
Height:
6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight:
196 lb (89 kg)
Career information
High school:
Blue Springs (NE)
College:
Nebraska
Career history
As a player:
Canton Bulldogs (1919)
Decatur / Chicago Staleys (1920–1921)
Canton Bulldogs (1922–1923)
Cleveland Bulldogs (1924)
Frankford Yellow Jackets (1925–1926)
Chicago Cardinals (1927)
As a coach:
Canton Bulldogs (1922–1923)
Cleveland Bulldogs (1924)
Frankford Yellow Jackets (1925–1926)
Chicago Cardinals (1927)
Career highlights and awards
Ohio League champion (1919)
5× NFL champion (1921–1924, 1926)
4× First-team All-Pro (1920, 1922–1924)
NFL 1920s All-Decade Team
Consensus All-American (1915)
Military career
Allegiance
United States
Service/branch
U.S. Army
Years of service
1918–1919
Player stats at PFR
Coaching stats at PFR
Pro Football Hall of Fame
College Football Hall of Fame
Berlin Guy "Champ" Chamberlin (January 16, 1894 – April 4, 1967), sometimes misspelled Guy Chamberlain, was an American professional football player and coach. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1962 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1965. He was also named in 1969 to the NFL 1920s All-Decade Team.
A native of Blue Springs, Nebraska, Chamberlin played college football as a halfback at Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1911 and 1912. He transferred to the University of Nebraska in 1913 and played at the halfback and end positions for the undefeated 1914 and 1915 Nebraska Cornhuskers football teams that won consecutive Missouri Valley Conference championships. He was a consensus first-team All-American in 1915, and he was selected in 1936 as the greatest player in Nebraska football history.
He played professional football for nine years with the Canton Bulldogs (1919), Decatur / Chicago Staleys (1920–1921), Canton Bulldogs (1922–1923), Cleveland Bulldogs (1924), Frankford Yellow Jackets (1925–1926), and Chicago Cardinals (1927). He won professional football championships in six of his nine seasons in professional football: as a player in 1919 with the undefeated Bulldogs and in 1921 with the Staleys, and as a player/coach in 1922, 1923, and 1924 with the Bulldogs and in 1926 with the Yellow Jackets. He compiled a 58-16-7 record in six years as a head coach in the National Football League (NFL), the best win percentage (.759) of any coach in NFL history with a minimum 50 wins. He is also the only coach to win NFL championships with three different clubs.
Berlin Guy "Champ" Chamberlin (January 16, 1894 – April 4, 1967), sometimes misspelled Guy Chamberlain, was an American professional football player and...
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the National Football League in 1922 and Hay hired GuyChamberlin as Canton's player-coach. Chamberlin rebuilt the Bulldogs into a championship team. He...
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Football Hall of Fame inductees by retiring their jerseys – including GuyChamberlin, whose career predated the use of numbers on jerseys – in a ceremony...
players actually joined the new Bulldogs; among them was player-coach GuyChamberlin. The team played all of its home games at Dunn Field although Deutsch...
August 28, 2022. "GuyChamberlin; Class of 1965". Pro Football Hall of Fame. "Staley's Bears 1920-1921 Berlin Guy "Champ" Chamberlin". Staley Museum. December...
coach at the time of his resignation as the 49ers head coach, second to GuyChamberlin. Among coaches with at least 100 wins, his winning percentage is fifth...
College Football Hall of Fame. Notable among these are players Bob Brown, GuyChamberlin, Tommie Frazier, Rich Glover, Dave Rimington, and Will Shields, and...
Driscoll (1920–1922) Arnold Horween (1923–1924) Norman Barry (1925–1926) GuyChamberlin (1927) Fred Gillies (1928) Dewey Scanlon (1929) Ernie Nevers (1930–1931)...
Cusack (1912–1915) Harry Hazlett (1913–1915) Jim Thorpe (1915–1920) Cap Edwards (1921) GuyChamberlin (1922–1923) Harry Robb (1925–1926) Pete Henry (1926)...
College Football Hall of Fame. Notable among these are players Bob Brown, GuyChamberlin, Tommie Frazier, Rich Glover, Dave Rimington, and Will Shields, and...
percentage, including playoff games, ranks second in league history behind GuyChamberlin and is the highest among those who coached 100 games. Madden achieved...
Archived from the original on July 6, 2008. Retrieved July 7, 2008. "GuyChamberlin". Pro Football Reference. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original...
"Joe Carr". Pro Football Hall of Fame. Retrieved December 26, 2011. "GuyChamberlin". Pro Football Hall of Fame. Retrieved March 17, 2012. "Jimmy Conzelman"...
Driscoll (1920–1922) Arnold Horween (1923–1924) Norman Barry (1925–1926) GuyChamberlin (1927) Fred Gillies (1928) Dewey Scanlon (1929) Ernie Nevers (1930–1931)...
desert". Revenge of the Birds. Retrieved December 31, 2018. "Steve Wilks: "You Guys Made The Right Decision"". www.azcardinals.com. Retrieved December 31, 2018...
Staleys roster went on to be enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. GuyChamberlin was in the class of 1965, Jimmy Conzelman was in the class of 1964,...
successful independent club from New Jersey that was headed up by GuyChamberlin. Chamberlin was a friend and former teammate of Thorpe during their time with...
results". Pro Football Reference.com. Retrieved September 25, 2023. "Chamberlin Coaching results". Pro Football Reference.com. Retrieved October 30, 2013...
Football broadcast. "The guys on the team had to separate them—the offense getting Ditka away from Ryan and defensive guys holding Buddy." The Bears...
Global Information
United States
U.S. Army