Please answer the following question: Facts: - death place: la crosse , wisconsin , u.s. - highschool: central - weight lbs: 175 - position: end - caption: fay yearbook pictured in '' hilltop '' 1917 , marquette - death date: 14 march 1983 - college: marquette - birth date: 27 november 1895 - name: john fay - image: docfay.png - birth place: la crosse , wisconsin , u.s. Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of john fay -lrb- american football -rrb- .
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john carl -lrb- doc -rrb- fay , sr. -lrb- november 27 , 1895 -- march 14 , 1983 -rrb- was an end in the national football league who played for the green bay packers .fay was born in la crosse in 1895 , and attended st. mary 's catholic grade school along with central high school .he graduated from marquette university in milwaukee in 1918 , where he played football and basketball .he organized and captained the basketball teams of 1916 and 1917 .graduating in 1918 with a dentistry degree , fay briefly practiced with a dental company in georgia as an enlisted serviceman in world war i , then moved to omaha , nebraska , and finally to menasha , wisconsin , working as a dentist .with the help of reporter george whitney calhoun , he was offered to and signed a contract with the packers for 1922 , earning $ 100 per game .he retired from professional football after that season .he quit the dentistry profession , stating that he '' did n't care for it '' after two years of practice in menosha , and worked for a wholesale furniture company until it folded during the great depression .fay was later a petroleum inspector for the state of wisconsin .he retired in 1960 after a 27 year career .he was married to mildred waters and had two children .