Jack Scarbath

John Carl Scarbath (August 12, 1930 – December 6, 2020) was an American professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins and Pittsburgh Steelers. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983.

Early life Scarbath was born in the Hamilton section of Baltimore, Maryland, on August 12, 1930 and attended high school at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. He played football as a quarterback and basketball as a guard. At Poly, Scarbath came to the attention of former Maryland coach and then university president Harry C. Byrd, who offered him a full athletic scholarship.

The Maryland Terrapins compiled a 24-4-1 record with Scarbath as quarterback and defeated Tennessee in the 1951 Sugar Bowl. Scarbath was also Southern Conference Player of the Year and the South's Most Valuable Player in the North–South Shrine Game. Scarbath graduated from Maryland in 1954 with an industrial engineering degree. He played with Washington from 1953 to 1954. In 1955, Scarbath played in the Canadian Football League for the Ottawa Rough Riders. He returned to the NFL to play for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1956, his final season in the NFL. Scarbath died of heart failure on December 6, 2020, at 90 years of age.