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The Top Ranked Offensive Linemen of the 1920s
Notes: Ranking Explanation
| Rnk | Athlete | Overall Decade Rank |
| 1 | Pete Henry | 4 |
| 2 | Ed Healey | 6 |
| 3 | Jim McMillen | 10 |
| 4 | Gus Sonnenberg | 11 |
| 5 | Swede Youngstrom | 12 |
| 6 | George Trafton | 13 |
| 7 | Link Lyman | 17 |
| 8 | Duke Slater | 21 |
| 9 | Steve Owen | 22 |
| 10 | Hugh Blacklock | 24 |
| 11 | Bub Weller | 27 |
| 12 | Duke Osborn | 28 |
| 13 | Rudy Comstock | 29 |
| 14 | Bull Behman | 31 |
| 15 | Herb Stein | 32 |
| 16 | Al Nesser | 36 |
| 17 | Frank Racis | 37 |
| 18 | Milt Rehnquist | 44 |
| 19 | Don Murry | 46 |
| 20 | Steamer Horning | 48 |
| 21 | Jug Earp | 49 |
| 22 | Russ Hathaway | 55 |
| 23 | Eddie Sauer | 58 |
| 24 | Cub Buck | 59 |
| 25 | Mike Michalske | 62 |
| 26 | Fred Gillies | 63 |
| 27 | Clyde Smith | 67 |
| 28 | Bill Owen | 71 |
| 29 | Chet Widerquist | 72 |
| 30 | Hec Garvey | 75 |
| 31 | Willis Brennan | 83 |
| 32 | Nick McInerney | 86 |
| 33 | Ojay Larson | 90 |
| 34 | Moose Gardner | 92 |
| 35 | Ralph Scott | 95 |
| 36 | Walt Kiesling | 97 |
| 37 | Hobby Kinderdine | 102 |
| 38 | Dewey Lyle | 103 |
| 39 | Jack Fleischmann | 105 |
| 40 | Charlie Guy | 107 |
| 41 | Bill Fleckenstein | 110 |
| 42 | Mike Gulian | 111 |
| 43 | Joe Kozlowsky | 117 |
| 44 | Clyde Zoia | 119 |
| 45 | Al Graham | 128 |
| 46 | Whitey Woodin | 129 |
| 47 | Russ Smith | 132 |
| 48 | Joe Mulbarger | 133 |
| 49 | Johnny Budd | 136 |
| 50 | Century Milstead | 144 |
| 51 | Cal Hubbard | 146 |
| 52 | Walt Ellis | 147 |
| 53 | Jim Flower | 148 |
| 54 | Rudy Rosatti | 149 |
| 55 | Dosey Howard | 151 |
| 56 | Russ Stein | 153 |
| 57 | Jack McArthur | 154 |
| 58 | Garland Buckeye | 163 |
| 59 | Bill Buckler | 164 |
| 60 | John Mintun | 165 |
| 61 | Ralph Claypool | 167 |
| 62 | Mickey Murtagh | 172 |
| 63 | Charlie Copley | 174 |
| 64 | Bill Brace | 175 |
| 65 | Herb Sies | 176 |
| 66 | Russ Bailey | 181 |
| 67 | Bob Nash | 182 |
| 68 | Frank Rydzewski | 185 |
| 69 | Jerry J. Jones | 186 |
| 70 | Hunk Anderson | 187 |
| 71 | Pike Johnson | 190 |
| 72 | Roger Ashmore | 191 |
| 73 | Walt LeJeune | 197 |
| 74 | Jim Welsh | 199 |
| 75 | Andy Nemecek | 200 |
| 76 | Earl Evans | 202 |
| 77 | Dick Stahlman | 205 |
| 78 | Tarzan Taylor | 207 |
| 79 | Bill Springsteen | 208 |
| 80 | Frank Morrissey | 210 |
| 81 | Tom Cobb | 213 |
| 82 | Hal Hanson | 216 |
| 83 | Les Caywood | 226 |
| 84 | Tom McNamara | 230 |
| 85 | George Berry | 231 |
| 86 | Al Pierotti | 234 |
| 87 | Tommy Tomlin | 235 |
| 88 | Max Reed | 237 |
| 89 | Dolph Eckstein | 238 |
| 90 | Bill Hoffman | 239 |
| 91 | Roger Mahoney | 240 |
| 92 | Al Feeney | 242 |
| 93 | Oscar Wolford | 244 |
| 94 | Frank Culver | 247 |
| 95 | Larry Conover | 251 |
| 96 | Doc Williams | 254 |
| 97 | Joe Wostoupal | 256 |
| 98 | Butch Spagna | 259 |
| 99 | Louis Kolls | 261 |
| 100 | Emmett Keefe | 266 |
| 101 | Tiny Cahoon | 268 |
| 102 | Belf West | 269 |
| 103 | Bob Beattie | 270 |
| 104 | Harry Mehre | 271 |
| 105 | Jab Murray | 276 |
| 106 | Paul Des Jardien | 280 |
| 107 | Stan Muirhead | 281 |
| 108 | Dutch Speck | 284 |
| 109 | Hank Smith | 285 |
| 110 | Jerry Lunz | 289 |
| 111 | Norm Harvey | 290 |
| 112 | Bill Stein | 291 |
| 113 | Boni Petcoff | 294 |
| 114 | Lud Wray | 299 |
| 115 | Doc Alexander | 300 |
| 116 | Red Pearlman | 301 |
| 117 | Joe Williams | 302 |
| 118 | Jay Berquist | 303 |
| 119 | John Filak | 311 |
| 120 | Ed Weir | 316 |
| 121 | Nick Lassa | 318 |
| 122 | John Barrett | 319 |
| 123 | Bill Kern | 320 |
| 124 | Lou Little | 324 |
| 125 | Jim Bowdoin | 325 |
| 126 | George Thompson | 326 |
| 127 | Tiny Thornhill | 328 |
| 128 | Bruce Jones | 334 |
| 129 | John Thurman | 338 |
| 130 | Lou Usher | 342 |
| 131 | Dutch Wallace | 344 |
| 132 | Alf Cobb | 345 |
| 133 | Babe Connaughton | 347 |
| 134 | John Sack | 349 |
| 135 | Claude Perry | 351 |
| 136 | Dick Hall | 355 |
| 137 | Olin Smith | 359 |
| 138 | Carl Thomas | 362 |
| 139 | Len Smith | 363 |
| 140 | John Alexander | 364 |
| 141 | Cap Edwards | 366 |
| 142 | Oscar Kuhner | 368 |
| 143 | Burt Ingwersen | 369 |
| 144 | Harvey Levy | 378 |
| 145 | Ernie Vick | 381 |
| 146 | Russ Oltz | 382 |
| 147 | Abe Wilson | 383 |
| 148 | Bill Feaster | 386 |
| 149 | Ed Gallagher | 388 |
| 150 | Frank Coughlin | 389 |
| 151 | Festus Tierney | 393 |
| 152 | Ted Mitchell | 397 |
| 153 | Wally Niemann | 401 |
| 154 | Ed Shaw | 402 |
| 155 | Swede Rundquist | 408 |
| 156 | Lloyd Young | 413 |
| 157 | Orland Smith | 416 |
| 158 | Marty Conrad | 418 |
| 159 | Ted Nesser | 422 |
| 160 | Dan O'Connor | 425 |
| 161 | Art Carney | 431 |
| 162 | Bill Oliver | 440 |
| 163 | Ernie Cuneo | 448 |
| 164 | John Underwood | 451 |
| 165 | Al Jolley | 452 |
| 166 | Glenn Tidd | 453 |
| 167 | Freeman Fitzgerald | 455 |
| 168 | Paul Minick | 457 |
| 169 | Art Johnson | 458 |
| 170 | Ad Wenke | 459 |
| 171 | Harry Malcolm | 463 |
| 172 | Tom Gormley | 466 |
| 173 | Bill Belanich | 468 |
| 174 | Earl Gorman | 469 |
| 175 | Leo Chappell | 471 |
| 176 | Sully Montgomery | 472 |
| 177 | Warren McGuirk | 473 |
| 178 | Art Webb | 475 |
| 179 | Walt Kreinheder | 476 |
| 180 | Bing Miller | 477 |
| 181 | Harry Collins | 479 |
| 182 | Andy Salata | 484 |
| 183 | Lou Feist | 488 |
| 184 | George Hartong | 490 |
| 185 | Chief Franta | 492 |
| 186 | Elmer Busch | 493 |
| 187 | Ross Petty | 496 |
| 188 | Bull Wesley | 499 |
| 189 | Walden Erickson | 504 |
| 190 | Zuck Carlson | 505 |
| 191 | Joe Kopcha | 513 |
| 192 | Al Bentzin | 517 |
| 193 | Bob Spiers | 518 |
| 194 | Cy Williams | 519 |
| 195 | Tom Edwards | 521 |
| 196 | Joe Carey | 523 |
| 197 | Will Waite | 527 |
| 198 | Cy DeGree | 530 |
| 199 | Pudge Wyland | 533 |
| 200 | Perry Jackson | 535 |
| 201 | Bobby Berns | 536 |
| 202 | Candy Miller | 537 |
| 203 | Fred Nesser | 541 |
| 204 | Russ Blailock | 547 |
| 205 | Murrell Hogue | 548 |
| 206 | Joe Mills | 549 |
| 207 | Leo Tobin | 553 |
| 208 | Boob Darling | 555 |
| 209 | Barlow Irvin | 557 |
| 210 | Ray Neal | 558 |
| 211 | Art Dorfman | 559 |
| 212 | Doc Davis | 560 |
| 213 | Frank Mayer | 565 |
| 214 | John Nichols | 570 |
| 215 | Nate Share | 571 |
| 216 | Joseph Chrape | 580 |
| 217 | Ned Scott | 581 |
| 218 | Red Weaver | 582 |
| 219 | Joe Carpe | 584 |
| 220 | John Dooley | 588 |
| 221 | Dick Faust | 596 |
| 222 | Pat Dunnigan | 597 |
| 223 | Larry McGinnis | 599 |
| 224 | Nat McCombs | 603 |
| 225 | Art Braman | 604 |
| 226 | Babe Parnell | 605 |
| 227 | Danny McMullen | 606 |
| 228 | Rip Kyle | 613 |
| 229 | Roy Andrews | 616 |
| 230 | Joe LaFleur | 617 |
| 231 | Bert Pearson | 619 |
| 232 | Carl Peterson | 620 |
| 233 | Don Newmeyer | 621 |
| 234 | Johnnie Becker | 625 |
| 235 | Joe Murphy | 627 |
| 236 | John Nolan | 629 |
| 237 | Brick Travis | 633 |
| 238 | Jim Spencer | 634 |
| 239 | Archie Sampson | 635 |
| 240 | Ray Stephens | 639 |
| 241 | Firpo Wilcox | 643 |
| 242 | Hugh Lowery | 645 |
| 243 | Ralph King | 649 |
| 244 | Rudy Tersch | 652 |
| 245 | Elmer McCormick | 655 |
| 246 | Babe Houck | 657 |
| 247 | Gil Runkel | 659 |
| 248 | Walt Brewster | 661 |
| 249 | Roy Martineau | 663 |
| 250 | Jimmy Manion | 664 |
| 251 | Ed Comstock | 669 |
| 252 | Ed Keenan | 670 |
| 253 | Mose Bashaw | 672 |
| 254 | John Madigan | 674 |
| 255 | Dick McGrath | 677 |
| 256 | Packie Nelson | 680 |
| 257 | Adrian Baril | 682 |
| 258 | Daddy Potts | 685 |
| 259 | Red Seidelson | 690 |
| 260 | Alec Fishman | 692 |
| 261 | Jack Donahue | 694 |
| 262 | Jack McCarthy | 695 |
| 263 | Jess Tinsley | 696 |
| 264 | Jim Dufft | 697 |
| 265 | Joe Bachmaier | 698 |
| 266 | Iolas Huffman | 699 |
| 267 | Howard Kieley | 700 |
| 268 | Bourbon Bondurant | 702 |
| 269 | Joe Davidson | 703 |
| 270 | Oke Carlson | 706 |
| 271 | Ted James | 710 |
| 272 | Elliott Bonowitz | 712 |
| 273 | Forrest Cotton | 713 |
| 274 | Adolph Spiegel | 714 |
| 275 | Charlie Mockmore | 715 |
| 276 | Jim Yeager | 717 |
| 277 | John Polisky | 718 |
| 278 | Mush Crawford | 719 |
| 279 | Walt Buland | 721 |
| 280 | Joe Windbiel | 726 |
| 281 | Walter Voight | 731 |
| 282 | Willie Flattery | 732 |
| 283 | William Murrah | 733 |
| 284 | Earl Duvall | 736 |
| 285 | Don Thompson (OL) | 738 |
| 286 | Joe McLain | 741 |
| 287 | Dave Skudin | 743 |
| 288 | Hal Griffen | 744 |
| 289 | Stan Powell | 747 |
| 290 | Ray Suess | 749 |
| 291 | Bob Dunn | 750 |
| 292 | Elliott Risley | 751 |
| 293 | Mark Stevenson | 752 |
| 294 | Ed Carman | 756 |
| 295 | Tom Hogan | 757 |
| 296 | Dave Tallant | 758 |
| 297 | Fritz Kramer | 760 |
| 298 | Stan Kuick | 762 |
| 299 | Bug Hartzog | 763 |
| 300 | Cliff Ashburn | 764 |
| 301 | Walt Schupp | 770 |
| 302 | Jimmy Woods | 772 |
| 303 | Larry Dellinger | 773 |
| 304 | Hugh Sprinkle | 774 |
| 305 | Bob Hill | 775 |
| 306 | Ralph Vince | 780 |
| 307 | John Leonard | 781 |
| 308 | Milton Wilson | 786 |
| 309 | Russell Meredith | 789 |
| 310 | Walt Godwin | 791 |
| 311 | Frank DeClerk | 792 |
| 312 | Frank Glassman | 796 |
| 313 | Jack R. Brown | 799 |
| 314 | Henry Bassett | 803 |
| 315 | Jake Williams | 804 |
| 316 | Alvie Thompson | 807 |
| 317 | Bill Garnjost | 808 |
| 318 | Oxie Lane | 811 |
| 319 | Frank Youngfleish | 813 |
| 320 | Fritz Loven | 818 |
| 321 | Jack Depler | 819 |
| 322 | Joe Burks | 820 |
| 323 | Knute Caldwell | 821 |
| 324 | Bill H. Ward | 822 |
| 325 | Ed McCrillis | 823 |
| 326 | Frank McConnell | 824 |
| 327 | Les Scott | 827 |
| 328 | Carl Beck | 831 |
| 329 | Leif Strand | 835 |
| 330 | Peaches Nadolney | 836 |
| 331 | Ted Buffalo | 839 |
| 332 | Ted St. Germaine | 840 |
| 333 | Ed Brawley | 842 |
| 334 | Harry F. Newman | 843 |
| 335 | Jack Thorpe | 845 |
| 336 | Al Crook | 850 |
| 337 | Charlie Carman | 851 |
| 338 | John Bunyan | 854 |
| 339 | Ralph Nichols | 855 |
| 340 | Tiny Thompson | 856 |
| 341 | Tex Kelly | 857 |
| 342 | Mule Werwaiss | 862 |
| 343 | Phil Nesser | 863 |
| 344 | Jack Hueller | 864 |
| 345 | Al L. Krueger | 865 |
| 346 | Ebby DeWeese | 869 |
| 347 | Red O'Neil | 872 |
| 348 | Saul Mielziner | 873 |
| 349 | Art Harms | 876 |
| 350 | Elgie Tobin | 877 |
| 351 | Harry McGee | 879 |
| 352 | Herb Dieter | 880 |
| 353 | Chase Van Dyne | 884 |
| 354 | Riley Biggs | 890 |
| 355 | George Kirk | 892 |
| 356 | George Tandy | 893 |
| 357 | Mickey Fallon | 894 |
| 358 | Denny Hughes | 896 |
| 359 | John Bayley | 899 |
| 360 | Tony Mehelich | 901 |
| 361 | George Kramer | 902 |
| 362 | Ben Oas | 903 |
| 363 | Corl Zimmerman | 904 |
| 364 | Dick Barker | 905 |
| 365 | Bill Capps | 908 |
| 366 | Jerry Krysl | 910 |
| 367 | John Conley | 911 |
| 368 | Lyle Burton | 912 |
| 369 | Vince Lensing | 913 |
| 370 | Ted Lone Wolf | 917 |
| 371 | Al Bedner | 918 |
| 372 | Chet Gay | 919 |
| 373 | Bill Connor | 920 |
| 374 | Bill Hurst | 921 |
| 375 | Bill Winneshick | 922 |
| 376 | Lou Reichel | 926 |
| 377 | George Rohleder | 931 |
| 378 | Don R. Nelson | 932 |
| 379 | Ed Doyle | 933 |
| 380 | Xavier Downwind | 935 |
| 381 | Frank Matteo | 936 |
| 382 | Hector Cyre | 937 |
| 383 | Napoleon Barrel | 941 |
| 384 | Ollie Satenstein | 942 |
| 385 | By Wimberly | 943 |
| 386 | Al Maeder | 946 |
| 387 | Chuck Gayer | 948 |
| 388 | George Abramson | 950 |
| 389 | Babe Kraus | 951 |
| 390 | Ben Barber | 952 |
| 391 | Furlong Flynn | 954 |
| 392 | Jack Lord | 955 |
| 393 | Pahl Davis | 957 |
| 394 | Joe Kraker | 959 |
| 395 | Ralph Waldsmith | 962 |
| 396 | Arnie Shockley | 964 |
| 397 | Al Maglisceau | 965 |
| 398 | Bob Fosdick | 966 |
| 399 | Walt Sechrist | 969 |
| 400 | Bill Newashe | 971 |
| 401 | Art Deibel | 972 |
| 402 | Bill Clarkin | 976 |
| 403 | Joe Willson | 980 |
| 404 | Sod Ryan | 981 |
| 405 | Eric Calhoun | 982 |
| 406 | Al Mitchell | 983 |
| 407 | Dutch Gaustad | 985 |
| 408 | Peck Reiter | 986 |
| 409 | John Coaker | 991 |
| 410 | Speed Braney | 992 |
| 411 | Bill Berrehsem | 993 |
| 412 | Barney Traynor | 996 |
| 413 | Jack Heldt | 998 |
| 414 | Milt Wilson | 1000 |
| 415 | Bob Morris | 1001 |
| 416 | Adolph Bieberstein | 1003 |
| 417 | John Layport | 1005 |
| 418 | Jim Ailinger | 1007 |
| 419 | Ed Nason | 1010 |
| 420 | Fred Hobscheid | 1011 |
| 421 | Richard Hardy | 1013 |
| 422 | John H. Beasley | 1015 |
| 423 | Heinie Jawish | 1018 |
| 424 | Joe Gillis | 1019 |
| 425 | Bill Fortune | 1021 |
| 426 | George Meinhardt | 1022 |
| 427 | Bert Shurtleff | 1023 |
| 428 | Ernie McCann | 1024 |
| 429 | Charlie Weber | 1026 |
| 430 | Clarence Beck | 1027 |
| 431 | Joe Milam | 1029 |
| 432 | Louie Larson | 1030 |
| 433 | Dick Rauch | 1034 |
| 434 | Zeke Wissinger | 1035 |
| 435 | Tom Long | 1038 |
| 436 | Bill Stephens | 1039 |
| 437 | Ed Greene | 1043 |
| 438 | Wade McRoberts | 1044 |
| 439 | Dilly Dally | 1046 |
| 440 | Van Edmondson | 1050 |
| 441 | Ralph Chase | 1052 |
| 442 | John Cameron | 1053 |
| 443 | Quentin Reynolds | 1054 |
| 444 | Dennis Gildea | 1055 |
| 445 | Ted Schwarzer | 1056 |
| 446 | Cop Weathers | 1057 |
| 447 | Bob Scott | 1058 |
| 448 | George Glennie | 1059 |
| 449 | Jack Bonadies | 1060 |
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