Lud Wray coached the Birds during the first three years of their existence. Since then, it's as if just about all the memories of him have been erased.
A portion of a team picture of the Eagles squad from the early 1930s, with coach Lud Wray at right. From 1933 to 1935, Wray compiled a record of nine wins, 21 losses, and a tie.I’d arrived at Section G of rambling Ivy Hill Cemetery, across a shady path from a mausoleum and a few blocks inside the Philadelphia city limits, to pay my respects to James R. Ludlow Wray .
Bell, not surprisingly, is one of about 50 members in the Eagles Hall of Fame — but Wray, more surprisingly, is not. After Wray passed away on July 24, 1967, in fact, The Inquirer slapped a headline on his obituary that read, “Lud Wray Dies; All-American Center at Penn,” referring to his glory days as a collegiate football player nearly two decades prior to the Eagles.
“I just think Lud was one of those people who was always at the wrong place at the wrong time,” Upton Bell, Bert’s 86-year-old son, told me two years ago. “What happened with Lud happened to a lot of people.” ), to institute the fast-paced “Indian” style made popular in the 1910s by Jim Thorpe at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. Still, observers in Boston thought Marshall had made a bad move.
Wray, who was once thrown out of a Penn game for kicking a Dartmouth player, never took it easy on the Eagles. One newcomer, Alabama Smith, notoriously a former inmate at Sing Sing , refused to leave the locker room after halftime of a 1935 game because Wray had gruffly described his play as “dogmeat.”Wray wanted to fight an official during, or after, what would be his last game as an NFL head coach, a 13-6 loss at home to the Green Bay Packers.
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