title: John Scafide
text: # John Scafide
  
  John Andrew "Baby Grand" Scafide (June 21, 1911 – October 24, 1979) was an American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the Boston Redskins. He played college football at Tulane University. Scafide served 16 years as mayor of his native Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
  
  ## Early years
  
  John Scafide was born on June 21, 1911, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi; one of 13 children born to Italian immigrants. He attended high school at Saint Stanislaus College in Bay St. Louis, playing for the "Rock-a-Chaws."
  
  ## Football
  
  ### College
  
  Scafide was an All-Southern guard for the Tulane Green Wave of Tulane University, a member of its team which made an appearance in the 1932 Rose Bowl. He was inducted into the Tulane Athletic Hall of Fame in 1985.
  
  ## Mayor
  
  Scafide served as mayor of Bay St. Louis from Bay from 1953 to 1969.
  
  