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Earl Reisser
American football player (1899–1956) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Earl Schwab "Jack" Reisser (May 26, 1899 – September 29, 1956), also referenced as Earl Reiser,[2] was an American football player.
A native of Todd County, Kentucky, he moved to Louisville as a boy. He attended Louisville Male High School where he played at the fullback position for the football team during the 1917 season .[3][4][5]
He served in the United States Navy during World War I and played on the Great Lakes Navy football team.[6][2][7]
After the war, he played several years of semiprofessional football with the Louisville Brecks.[6] The Brecks joined the National Football League in 1921, and Reisser played halfback for the 1923 team.[3][8] He was described in November 1923 as "the hardest smashing back of the season."[9]
Reisser continued living in Louisville and helped organize the Louisville Tanks and Stansanco Club football teams in the 1930s.[6][10] He worked for 35 years for the bathroom-fixtures division of American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corporation.
Reisser and his wife Dolores Houchin Reisser had three sons, Richard, Arthur, and Earl Jr. Reisser died in 1956 at age 57 of a heart ailment.[6][11][12]
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