Chuck Ealey may be the most successful high school and college Quarterback of all time. He never lost a game in high school and then he never lost a game again in college.
Ealey played high school football in Portsmouth, Ohio at Notre Dame High school. The town of Portsmouth is less than a two hour drive from Columbus, Ohio but somehow the Buckeyes of Ohio State missed on Ealey.
He graduated a year after the super recruiting class of the Buckeyes and maybe Hayes was more than pleased with his Quarterbacking duo of Rex Kern and Rob Macejowski.
Ealey was an African American Quarterback when this country was not very hospitable to black
Quarterbacks.
But, Woody Hayes was more than happy to sign black athletes and proved that with his Super Sophomore class of 1967. Even though none of his Quarterbacks were black, he still had a very good black Quarterback in Rod Gerald a few short years later.
It’s truly puzzling.
In 1968, Toledo was 5-4-1 when Ealey played on the freshman team and in 1972 Toledo was 6-5 when Ealey was no longer eligible. In between, they were 35-0. Ealey led the Rockets to 3 undefeated seasons in a row.
The Texas Longhorns had a 30 game win streak broken in the Cotton Bowl against Notre Dame. Penn State had a 23 game win streak that ended in their second game of the season. People talked about those winning streaks. Sportswriters wrote about them and praised Darrel Royal and Joe Paterno. Nobody much talked about Toledo coach Frank Lauterbur in 1969 and 1970 and then Jack Murphy in 1971.
Two different coaches had one thing in common. That was Quarterback Chuck Ealey.
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those years. The Offenses just weren’t the same as the ones today.
In three undefeated seasons, Ealey threw for exactly 5,000 yards and 42 Touchdowns. He also ran for 903 yards and 12 Touchdowns. But, clearly, he brought more to the table and clearly he was a leader of teammates no matter the skin color.
Like the college coaches, the NFL didn’t show any interest in Ealey at all. He insisted on playing Quarterback and NFL teams may have believed he wasn’t good enough.
Ealey was 6-1, 195 which isn’t ideal size for the NFL, but clearly he was talented and he was a winner.
The Canadian Football League was more than happy to take Chuck Ealey away from the NFL and he signed with the Hamilton Tiger Cats in 1972.
He was the Rookie of the Year for Hamilton and he later played for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the Toronto Argonauts. He wound up with over 13,000 passing yards.
He didn’t play that long in the Professional ranks after suffering a collapsed lung in 1978.
After football, Ealey became a successful investor and he stayed in Canada.
How many retired Quarterbacks can say that they never tasted defeat until they got into the professional ranks?