Ty Krentler

After graduating from high school, Krentler enrolled at Washington & Jefferson College intending to play college football for the Washington & Jefferson Presidents, then one of the leading football programs in the country. He left Washington & Jefferson due to "poor scholarship" and later enrolled at the University of Detroit.^[3] He played for the Detroit Titans football team in 1918 and 1919. After a game against the University of Michigan, the Detroit Free Press wrote that Krentler "showed the greatest exhibition of line plunging seen in a long while on Goldberg field."^[3] He also worked in 1918 as an accident investigator for the Detroit United Railway.^[4]

In 1920, Krentler played for the Detroit Heralds during the first regular season of the National Football League (then known as the American Professional Football Association).^[2][5] The Heralds finished the 1920 season with a game against the Detroit Maroons for the city championship. Krentler scored the Heralds' only touchdown in the final minute of the third quarter. The Maroons tied the game with a touchdown in the fourth quarter by fullback Schultz.^[6]

In 1921, Krentler played for the Detroit Maroons, a professional football team based in Detroit.^[7]

Krentler was married to Alice McClenmont in 1921.^[8][9] They had two sons, Walter (born c. 1923) and Robert (born c. 1924). In 1930, Krentler was living with his family in Detroit and was employed as a salesman of automobile tires.^[8] Krentler and his wife divorced in 1938.^[9]

In 1940, Krentler lived in Detroit and was employed as a state sales tax auditor.^[10] In 1942, he lived in Warren, Ohio, where he worked for the U.S. Navy at the Cleveland Diesel Motor Co.^[1] Krentler lived in his later years at St. Clair Shores, Michigan. He died there in 1971 at age 76.^[2][11]