Roy "Father" Lumpkin

Article taken from The Charleston Daily Mail, January 8, 1931

If all ex-college football players could draw down salaries like Roy "Father" Lumpkin, signa banker and best all-around player with Portsmouth, O., Spartans, then professional football should be the addition of the college player.

Lumpkin, who stood out as a spectacular backfield player with the National Professional Football league team from Ohio last season and the season before that, has been signed for next season at a salary of $6000. This is equivalent to $500 a month, on a yearly salary basis and $300 per game if the Spartans play another 20-game schedule like they did in 1930. From this salary figure an idea can be formed as to the salaries of such players as "Red" Grange, Dill Classgow, Nagurski, Crist Cagle, Joe Savoldi and few others who are now members of the professional ranks. Lumpkin joined the Spartans after leaving Georgia Tech where he was known as the "Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech."