Obscure sports trivia

Christy Mathewson, Roger Bresnahan and either Joe McGinnity or maybe John McGraw made a rare end of career appearance?

 

Who was the first NFL player to have his number retired?

 

George Halas?

 

Not Halas.

 

Red Grange?

 

Or maybe Bronko Nagurski.

 

Good guess, and the correct answer was from the same era, but not Grange.
Not Bronco Nagurski either.

 

I'm guessing Don Hutson, by the Packers.

 

Not Hutson.

 

Sid Luckman?

 

I’m sure it’s someone from the Bears, but I’m betting it’s someone from the ‘20s or ‘30s. Luckman played until the early ‘50s — surely they had retired numbers before that.

 

I was going to guess Sammy Baugh, but that now seems too obvious.

So I’ll go more obscure and guess Tuffy Leemans.