:Earl Potteiger

{{Short description|American athlete and coach (1893–1959)}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1893|2|11}}

| birth_place = Pottstown, Pennsylvania, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1959|4|7|1891|1|11}}

| death_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

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| number = 4, 3, 9

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| position1 = Halfback

| height_ft = 5

| height_in = 7

| weight_lb = 170

| college = Ursinus
Albright

| coaching_years1 = 1924{{Cite web|url=https://www.profootballarchives.com/coach/pott00200coach.html|title=Earl Potteiger Coaching Record - Pro Football Archives|access-date=July 20, 2020|archive-date=April 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170411233915/http://www.profootballarchives.com/coach/pott00200coach.html|url-status=dead}}

| coaching_team1 = Kenosha Maroons

| coaching_years2 = 1927–1928

| coaching_team2 = New York Giants

| playing_years1 = 1914–1919

| playing_team1 = Conshohocken Athletic Club

| playing_years2 = 1920

| playing_team2 = Union Club of Phoenixville

| playing_years3 = 1920

| playing_team3 = Buffalo All-Americans

| playing_years4 = 1921

| playing_team4 = Chicago Cardinals

| playing_years5 = 1921

| playing_team5 = Frankford Yellow Jackets

| playing_years6 = 1922

| playing_team6 = Milwaukee Badgers

| playing_years7 = 1924

| playing_team7 = Kenosha Maroons

| playing_years8 = 1925–1928

| playing_team8 = New York Giants

| career_highlights = * NFL champion (1927)

| NFL = POT249174

| DatabaseFootball = POTTEEAR01

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William Earl Potteiger (February 11, 1893 – April 7, 1959) was an American football, baseball, and basketball player and coach. He played professionally in both baseball and football and coached professionally in basketball, baseball and football. Potteiger was player-coach for the New York Giants when they won their first National Football League (NFL) championship in 1927. He also played minor league baseball from 1913 to 1917, in 1919, and from 1926 to 1927. He managed in the minors from 1926 to 1927 and in 1932.[https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=pottei001ear Baseball Reference]