Harold Edward "Red" Grange (1903 – 1991), nicknamed "The Galloping Ghost". American
football halfback for the University of Illinois, the Chicago Bears, and the
short-lived New York Yankees. His signing with the Bears helped legitimize the
National Football League (NFL).
In college, Grange was a three-time consensus
All-American and led his team to a national championship in 1923. He was the
only consensus All-American running back in 1924 who was not a member of the
Four Horsemen of Notre Dame. The same year, Grange became the first recipient
of the Chicago Tribune Silver Football award as the Big Ten Conference's most
valuable player. In 2008, he was named the best college football player of
all time by ESPN, and in 2011, he was named the Greatest Big Ten Icon by the Big
Ten Network.
- "A flashing, red-haired youngster, running and dodging with the speed of a deer..." http://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/packages/html/sports/year_in_sports/10.18a.html?scp=1&sq=Ten%2520Rapid&st=cse
- "While the stone columns dedicated to those heroes of yesterday stood their immortal guard over the heroes of tomorrow this red headed hero of today ran the five touchdowns." https://muse.jhu.edu/article/635124/summary
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