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Red Grange
Harold Edward "Red" Grange (June 13, 1903 – January 28, 1991), nicknamed "the Galloping Ghost" and "the Wheaton Iceman", was an American professional American football, football Halfback (American football), halfback who played for the Chicago Bears and the short-lived New York Yankees (NFL), New York Yankees. His signing with the Bears helped legitimize the National Football League (NFL). Playing college football for the Illinois Fighting Illini football, Illinois Fighting Illini, Grange was a three-time consensus College Football All-America Team, All-American and led his team to a national championship in 1923. He was the only List of unanimous All-Americans in college football, unanimous All-American selection in 1924, making him the first player in college football history to receive that honor. 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, Grange was named the best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halfback (American Football)
A halfback (HB) is an Offense (sports), offensive position in American football, whose duties involve lining up in the offensive backfield and Carry (gridiron football), carrying the ball (gridiron football), ball on most rush (gridiron football), rushing American football plays, plays, i.e. a running back. When the principal ball carrier lines up deep in the backfield, and especially when that player is placed behind another player (usually a Blocking (American football), blocking back), as in the I formation, that player is instead referred to as a tailback (TB). Sometimes the halfback can catch the ball from the backfield on short passing plays as they are an eligible receiver. Occasionally, they line up as additional wide receivers. When not running or catching the ball, the primary responsibility of a halfback is to aid the offensive linemen in blocking, either to protect the quarterback or another player carrying the football. The term "halfback" has seen a decline since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1923 Illinois Fighting Illini Football Team
The 1923 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football squad representing the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, University of Illinois in the 1923 Big Ten Conference football season. In their 11th season under head coach Robert Zuppke, the Fighting Illini compiled an 8–0 record (5–0 against Big Ten Conference opponents), tied with 1923 Michigan Wolverines football team, Michigan for the Big Ten championship, shut out five of eight opponents, and outscored their opponents by a total of 136 to 20. There was no contemporaneous system in 1923 for determining a College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS, national champion. However, Illinois was retroactively named as the national champion by the Boand System, College Football Researchers Association, Helms Athletic Foundation, and Parke H. Davis, and as a co-national champion by the Berryman QPRS system, National Championship Foundation, and Jeff Sagarin (using the ELO-Chess method ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) is a Professional gridiron football, professional American football league in the United States. Composed of 32 teams, it is divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and the highest professional level of American football in the world. Each NFL season begins annually with a NFL preseason, three-week preseason in August, followed by the NFL regular season, 18-week regular season, which runs from early September to early January, with each team playing 17 games and having one Bye (sports), bye week. Following the conclusion of the regular season, seven teams from each conference, including the four division winners and three Wild card (sports), wild card teams, advance to the NFL playoffs, playoffs, a single-elimination tournament, which culminates in the Super Bowl, played in early February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Football
American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at each end. The offense (sports), offense, the team with possession of the oval-shaped Ball (gridiron football), football, attempts to advance down the field by Rush (gridiron football), running with the ball or Forward pass#Gridiron football, throwing it, while the Defense (sports), defense, the team without possession of the ball, aims to stop the offense's advance and to take control of the ball for themselves. The offense must advance the ball at least ten yard, yards in four Down (gridiron football), downs or plays; if they fail, they turnover on downs, turn over the football to the defense, but if they succeed, they are given a new set of four downs to continue the Glossary of American football#drive, drive. Points are scored primarily b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reception (gridiron Football)
In gridiron football, a reception, also known informally as a catch, is part of a passing play in which a player in bounds successfully catches (receives) a forward pass thrown from their team's quarterback behind the line of scrimmage. In most cases, after making the catch, the receiver will then proceed to run towards the opposing end zone carrying the ball and try to score a touchdown, unless the play ends due to him being downed or forced out of bounds. Yardage gained from the passing play are credited to the catcher as his receiving yards. If the pass is not caught by anyone, it is called an incomplete pass or simply an "incompletion". If the pass is caught by an opposing player, it is called an interception. A reception should not be confused with a lateral, also known as a lateral pass or backward pass, which is a legal pass anywhere on the field. In a lateral pass, the ball is thrown backwards or sideways to a teammate with no vector Vector most often refers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touchdown
A touchdown (abbreviated as TD) is a scoring play in gridiron football. Scoring a touchdown grants the team that scored it 6 points. Whether running, passing, returning a kickoff or punt, or recovering a turnover, a team scores a touchdown by advancing the football into the opponent's end zone. More specifically, a touchdown is when a player is in possession of the ball, any part of the ball is in the end zone they are attacking, and the player is not down. Because of the speed at which football happens, it is often hard for an official to make the correct call based on their vantage point alone. Most professional football leagues, such as the National Football League (NFL) and the Canadian Football League (CFL), as well as some college leagues, such as the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), allow certain types of plays to be reviewed. Among these plays are touchdowns, as well as all other scoring plays, dangerous or unsportsmanlike conduct by players o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1925 All-Big Ten Conference Football Team
The 1925 All-Big Ten Conference football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Big Ten Conference teams chosen by various selectors for the 1925 Big Ten Conference football season. All Big-Ten selections Ends * Bennie Oosterbaan, Michigan (AP-1; BE-1; BTW-1; NB-1; JW; UP-1; WE-1) * Chuck Kassel, Illinois (AP-1; BE-1; BTW-1; UP-1; WE-1) * Dick Romey, Iowa (AP-2; BE-2; JW; NB-1; WE-3) * George Fisher, Indiana (BE-2) * Jefferson Burrus, Wisconsin (BTW-2; UP-2) * Roger B. Wheeler, Minnesota (BTW-2) * Cookie Cunningham, Ohio State (AP-2) * Elmer A. Lampe, Chicago (WE-2) * William Flora, Michigan (WE-2) * Frank E. Mathews, Northwestern (WE-3) Tackles * Fred Henderson, Chicago (AP-1; BE-1; BTW-1; JW; NB-1; UP-1; WE-1) * Tom Edwards, Michigan (AP-2; BE-2; BTW-1; NB-1; UP-1; WE-1) * Harry Hawkins, Michigan (AP-1; BE-1; BTW-1; JW; UP-2; WE-2) * Elmer A. Lampe, Chicago (BE-2; UP-2 nd * Paul Nelson, Wisconsin (BTW-2; WE-3) * J. T. Bolan, Purdue (UP-2) * John H. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1923 All-Big Ten Conference Football Team
The 1923 All-Big Ten Conference football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Big Ten Conference teams chosen by various selectors for the 1923 Big Ten Conference football season. Ends * Ray Eklund, Minnesota (BE; NB-1; WE-1) * Elmer A. Lampe, Chicago (NB-1; WE-2) * John W. Hancock, Iowa (BE; WE-3) * Lowell Otte, Iowa (WE-1) * Russell Irish, Wisconsin (NB-2; WE-3) * Frank Rokusek, Illinois (NB-2; WE-2) Tackles * Marty Below, Wisconsin (BE; NB-1; WE-1) * Stanley Muirhead, Michigan (BE; NB-1; WE-1) * Leo Kriz, Iowa (NB-2; WE-2) * Gowdy, Chicago (NB-2; WE-3) * Boni Petcoff, Ohio State (WE-2) * Louis Gross, Minnesota (WE-3) Guards * Jim McMillen, Illinois (BE; NB-1; WE-1) * Adolph Bieberstein, Wisconsin (BE; WE-2) * George Abramson, Minnesota (NB-1) * Lloyd Rohrke, Chicago (WE-1) * Joe Pondelik, Chicago (NB-2) * Thomas Butler, Indiana (NB-2; WE-3) * Gay, Minnesota (WE-2) * Bill Fleckenstein, Iowa (WE-3) Centers * Jack Blott, Michigan (BE; NB-1; WE-1) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of All-Big Ten Conference Football Teams
The All-Big Ten Conference football team is an annual Big Ten Conference honor bestowed on the best players in the conference following every college football season. Seasons Following is a list of all-conference teams in the history of the Big Ten: * 1898 All-Western college football team * 1899 All-Western college football team * 1900 All-Western college football team * 1901 All-Western college football team * 1902 All-Western college football team * 1903 All-Western college football team * 1904 All-Western college football team * 1905 All-Western college football team * 1906 All-Western college football team * 1907 All-Western college football team * 1908 All-Western college football team * 1909 All-Western college football team * 1910 All-Western college football team * 1911 All-Western college football team * 1912 All-Western college football team * 1913 All-Western college football team * 1914 All-Western college football team * 1915 All-Western college footb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Tribune Silver Football
The ''Chicago Tribune'' Silver Football is awarded by the ''Chicago Tribune'' to the college football player determined to be the best player from the Big Ten Conference. The award has been presented annually since 1924, when Red Grange of Illinois was the award's first recipient. In 2022, the ''Chicago Tribune'' announced a new partnership with the Union League Club of Chicago, where it is currently housed. A vote of Big Ten head football coaches determines the winner of the Silver Football. Each coach submits a two-player ballot with a first and second choice, and coaches cannot vote for players on their own team. The first-place vote receives two points and the second-place vote receives one point. Coaches and media of the Big Ten also make annual selections for additional individual honors. Recipients The Silver Football award has been presented annually since 1924. Winners by school Winners by position See also * Big Ten Conference football individual award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1925 College Football All-America Team
The 1925 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1925. Walter Camp died in March 1925, marking the end of his "official" All-American selections for ''Collier's Weekly''. The wire services and others moved in to fill the void in 1925, with both the United Press and Associated Press offering their own All-American teams for the first time. The eight selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1925 season are (1) the All-America Board (AAB), (2) the Associated Press (AP), (3) ''Collier's Weekly'', with Grantland Rice replacing Camp as the selector, (4) '' Football World'' magazine, (5) the International News Service (INS), (6) ''Liberty'' magazine, (7) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), and (8) the United Press (UP). The only two unanimous All-Americans in 1925 were tackle Ed Weir of Nebraska and halfback A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1923 College Football All-America Team
The 1923 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1923. The only two selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1923 season are Walter Camp, whose selections were published in ''Collier's Weekly'', and ''Football World'' magazine. Additional selectors who chose All-American teams in 1923 include ''Athletic World (magazine), Athletic World'' magazine, selected by 500 coaches, Norman E. Brown, sports editor of the Central Press Association, and Davis J. Walsh, sports editor for the International News Service. The consensus All-Americans recognized by the NCAA include: Halfback (American football), halfback Red Grange of Illinois Fighting Illini football, Illinois, known as "The Galloping Ghost" and who in 2008 was named by ESPN as the best college football player of all time; halfback Harry Wilson (halfback), Harry Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
