Cliff Montgomery

Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:Short description Template:Template other Cliff Montgomery (September 17, 1910 – April 21, 2005) was an American football player who served as the captain of the Columbia Lions football team that won the 1934 Rose Bowl Game. Montgomery, the quarterback, called a hidden-ball trick play known as KF-79 that led to Columbia's 7–0 upset over Stanford University. It was widely regarded as one of the greatest athletic upsets of the twentieth century, and Montgomery was named the game's most valuable player.

Montgomery went on to play for one season with the Brooklyn Dodgers of the National Football League (NFL), seeing action in 11 games and starting 3 times.

Montgomery served with the United States Navy during World War II. He earned the Silver Star during the 1945 invasion of Okinawa, credited with saving the lives of 400 sailors on April 6, 1945, when he navigated his flagship alongside a burning destroyer in rough seas.

An executive at McGraw Hill, Montgomery spent 25 years as a college football official and earned a spot in the College Football Hall of Fame.

See also

• List of Columbia University people

Further reading

• Bob Curran, Pro Football's Rag Days. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1969; pp. 137–140.

External links

• [[[:Template:College Football HoF/url]] College Football Hall of Fame profile]

• Columbia University obituary for Cliff Montgomery