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{{Short description|American football player and coach (1903–1981)}}
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{{Infobox NFL biography
| image        = Dougwycoff.jpg
| number       = --
| position     = [[Running back]]
| birth_date   = {{birth date|1903|9|16}}
| birth_place  = [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]], U.S.
| death_date   = {{death date and age|1981|10|27|1903|09|16}}
| death_place  = [[Atlanta, Georgia]], U.S.
| height_ft    = 6
| height_in    = 2
| weight_lbs   = 195
| high_school  = [[Little Rock Central High School|Little Rock Central (AR)]]
| college      = [[Georgia Tech Yellowjackets football|Georgia Tech]]
| pastteams    = * [[Newark Bears (AFL)|Newark Bears]] ({{NFL Year|1926}})
* [[New York Giants]] ({{NFL Year|1927}})
* [[Staten Island Stapletons]] ({{NFL Year|1929}}–{{NFL Year|1930}})
* New York Giants ({{NFL Year|1931}})
* Staten Island Stapletons ({{NFL Year|1932}})
* [[Boston Redskins]] ({{NFL Year|1934}})
* [[Boston Shamrocks (AFL)|Boston Shamrocks]] ({{NFL Year|1936}})
| pastcoaching = * [[Staten Island Stapletons]] ({{NFL Year|1929}}–{{NFL Year|1930}})
| highlights   = * [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] (1924)
* 3× All-[[College Football All-Southern Team|Southern]] (1923, 1924, 1925)
* Tech All-Era Team ([[William Alexander (coach)|William Alexander]] Era)
* Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame
* Georgia Sports Hall of Fame
| statlabel1   = Rushing yards
| statvalue1   = 780
| statlabel2   = Average
| statvalue2   = 3.2
| statlabel3   = Total [[Touchdown|TDs]]
| statvalue3   = 13
| pfr          = WycoDo20
| pfrcoach     = WycoDo0
| caption      = Wycoff c. 1925
}}

'''Stephen Douglas Wycoff''' (September 16, 1903 &ndash; October 27, 1981) was an [[American football]] [[running back]] for the [[New York Giants]], [[Staten Island Stapletons]], and [[Boston Redskins]] in the [[National Football League]] (NFL), the [[Newark Bears (AFL)|Newark Bears]] in the [[American Football League (1926)|first American Football League]] (AFL), and the [[Boston Shamrocks (AFL)|Boston Shamrocks]] in the [[American Football League (1936)|second American Football League]] (AFL). He played [[college football]] at [[Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football|Georgia Tech]], where he was a [[running back]] and senior captain.

==Georgia Tech==
Wycoff prepped in [[Little Rock, Arkansas]], and came to Tech as a package deal with [[Ike Williams (American football)|Ike Williams]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv11/CFHSNv11n3g.pdf|title=CONTENTdm|access-date=May 6, 2016|archive-date=June 2, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602035025/http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv11/CFHSNv11n3g.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was the school's first letterman in four sports.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/SC/1925.html|title=History of the Early Southern Conference Atlanta Basketball Tournament}}</ref>

===Football===
[[File:Doug Wycoff.jpg|thumb|345x345px|Wycoff in 1925]]
Wycoff was a prominent fullback for [[William Alexander (coach)|Bill Alexander]]'s [[Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football]] team from [[1923 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team|1923]] to [[1925 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team|1925]]. He was elected captain of the 1925 team, having been "the outstanding back of the South for the past two years."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/stanford?a=d&d=stanford19251027-01.2.55#|title=1925 Football Captains|date=October 27, 1925|volume=68|work=The Stanford Daily}}</ref> Coach Alexander recalled "The work of Douglas Wycoff against [[Notre Dame Fighting Irish football|Notre Dame]] two years in succession was brilliant in the extreme, as was his plunging against Penn. State when we defeated them twice."<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Kansas City Star|year=1926|title=Forty-Five Yards for Georgia Tech|author=W. A. Alexander|author-link=William Alexander (coach)|url=http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv07/CFHSNv07n4i.pdf|access-date=February 13, 2015|archive-date=February 13, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213170521/http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv07/CFHSNv07n4i.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was a consensus [[College Football All-Southern Team|All-Southern]] choice each year he played. Lawrence Perry selected Wycoff first-team [[College Football All-America Team|All-America]]n in 1924.<ref>{{cite news|author=Lawrence Perry|title=Lawrence Perry's All-American Teams Announced|work=Oakland Tribune|date=1923-12-14}}</ref>

[[Morgan Blake]], sports writer for the ''[[Atlanta Journal]]'', said of an all-time All-Southern list:<ref>{{Closed access}} {{Cite news|url = http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=V58T58POMTQxMDMwMzM5NC43MTM5MDE6MToxMzoxMzIuMTk4LjUwLjEz&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=7&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=7&p_docnum=10&p_docref=v2:1223BCE5B718A166@EANX-128FF32B80887657@2426737-128A4A7BEB9ED906@9-129012CAE1D1156F@|title = Famous Footballers|date = January 30, 1932|work = Times-Picayune}}</ref> "It seems to us that one name is left out in this collection, who may have been the best all-around player the [[American south|South]] has had.

"We have reference to Doug Wycoff of Tech who, for three straight years, was practically the unanimous all-Southern football choice, despite the fact that Georgia Tech had very lean years during his period of play at this institution. If Wycoff had been flanked by such a pair of halfbacks as [[Red Barron]] and [[Buck Flowers]], or [[Stumpy Thomason|Thomason]] and [[Warner Mizell|Mizell]] while he was with the Jackets, he would have been an all-American. As it was he had to carry all of the offensive load and on the defense he was a wheelhorse. He was a great punter and passer. If Wycoff was not the best all-around player the South had produced then he was very close to the peak."

==Professional football==

===Newark Bears===
Wycoff played professional football with the 1926 [[Newark Bears (AFL)|Newark Bears]] in the first [[American Football League (1926)|American Football League]] (AFL), with several other former Georgia Tech players including [[Jimmy Brewster]], [[Vaughan Connelly]], and [[Ike Williams (American football)|Ike Williams]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-atlanta-constitution-hawk-eye-ing-sp/143547494/ |title=Hawk-Eye-ing Sports |first=Dick |last=Hawkins |newspaper=[[The Atlanta Constitution]] |page=4B |date=December 12, 1926 |accessdate=March 17, 2024 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> Wycoff scored the Bears only points in their short existence, having a [[touchdown]] run and kicking the [[extra point]] to tie the [[Chicago Bulls (AFL)|Chicago Bulls]] in both teams’ opening game of the season.<ref>[http://aflhistory.net/linescores/pdf/1926a.pdf  1926 American Football League from Elias Sports Bureau and Pro Football Research Association Linescore Committee] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150605131116/http://aflhistory.net/linescores/pdf/1926a.pdf |date=June 5, 2015 }}</ref>

===Miami Seahawks===
He was one time part owner of the [[Miami Seahawks]].

==Wrestling==
Wycoff also [[wrestling|wrestled]]. He once beat former [[Florida Gators football|Florida Gators]] fullback [[Bill Middlekauff]] in a match, the main event at the Atlanta Municipal Auditorium for Georgia Championship Wrestling promoter Henry Weber.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19360224&id=DfZPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WFUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5625,2024802|work=The Evening Independent|date=February 24, 1936|title=Football Rivals To Meet on Mat}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19360311&id=G_ZPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WFUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3539,4643028|title=Wyckoff Meets Dick Powell In Mat Headliner|date=March 11, 1936|work=The Evening Independent}}</ref>

==Championships and accomplishments==
*'''NWA Florida'''
**[[NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship]] ([[NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship#Title history|1 time]])

==References==
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