Ralph Vince was an American football player for the Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Bulldogs, and the Cleveland Panthers. He would later coach at Baldwin Wallace College and John Carroll University. Outspoken and inventive as a coach, he was the inventor of the face mask. The original he created is on display at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. He also was the first coach to put an armband of plays on his quarterbacks' wrists, now a common sight in the game.