{"id":109426,"date":"2017-12-09T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:52:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:52:17","slug":"most-points-scored-by-one-player-in-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/most-points-scored-by-one-player-in-nfl\/","title":{"rendered":"Most points scored by one player in NFL game, 1929"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/modernhistorian.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/on-this-day-in-history-most-points.html\"> <\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_FN98eHvI0Yg\/SxAEx8awORI\/AAAAAAAABlw\/erxsbvuWRnc\/s1600\/ErnieNevers.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"152\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ernienevers.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-109427\" \/><\/a>Born  in Willow River, Minnesota, in 1903, Ernie Nevers developed his  sporting prowess while at high school. He gained notoriety playing  American football for Stanford University, being named as the Player of  the Game  in their 1925 Rose Bowl victory against the University of  Notre Dame. The following year he made his professional sporting d\u00e9but  as a pitcher for the St. Louis Browns baseball team, before also signing  for the Duluth Eskimos AFL side as fullback.<\/p>\n<p>In 1929 Nevers  signed for he Chicago Cardinals NFL side, as player-coach. On 28th  November, the Cardinals had a visit from their local rivals, the Chicago  Bears, for the Thanksgiving Day fixture. The crowd of approximately  eight-thousand watched as Nevers scored all forty points for the  Cardinals in their 40-6 victory. He made six touchdowns and kicked four  extra points to establish a record that still stands.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in Willow River, Minnesota, in 1903, Ernie Nevers developed his sporting prowess while at high school. He gained notoriety playing American football for Stanford University, being named as the Player of the Game in their 1925 Rose Bowl victory against the University of Notre Dame. The following year he made his professional sporting d\u00e9but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}