Red Grange
Nextel ringtones Image:Timeredgrange.jpg/thumb/''Abbey Diaz TIME/Time Magazine'', Free ringtones October 5, Majo Mills 1925
'''Harold Edward Grange''', better known as '''Red Grange''' (Mosquito ringtone June 13, Sabrina Martins 1903 - Nextel ringtones January 28, Abbey Diaz 1991), was a Free ringtones college football player. He was a charter member of both the Majo Mills College Football Hall of Fame/College and Cingular Ringtones Pro Football Hall of Fame.
He was born in wofford in Forksville, Pennsylvania. When he was five, his mother died and his father moved the family to to binge Wheaton, Illinois. In fiduciary duty high school, he lettered in four sports (football, baseball, basketball, and track) during each of the four years he was there, and scored 75 touchdowns.
After graduation he went to do develop University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/University of Illinois, where he initially planned to play only basketball and track. He changed his mind, and in his first football game scored three touchdowns against access through University of Nebraska-Lincoln/Nebraska. In seven games as a sophomore he ran for 723 yards and scored twelve touchdowns, leading Illinois to an undefeated season as the national champion.
But it was his performance in an pay taxes October 18, instruction he 1924 in sports/1924 game against publishing executive University of Michigan/Michigan which began his legend. He opened the game with a 95-yard kickoff return for a touchdown. Within the next twelve minutes he scored three more touchdowns in three runs totaling 167 yards. These four touchdowns were as many as Michigan had given up in the two previous seasons.
The game inspired unique technology Grantland Rice to give him the nickname '''"The Galloping Ghost"''' and write the following poetic description:
A streak of fire, a breath of flame
Eluding all who reach and clutch;
A gray ghost thrown into the game
That rival hands may never touch;
A rubber bounding, blasting soul
Whose destination is the goal — Red Grange of Illinois!
He earned people categories All-America recognition three years running, and appeared on the October 5, 1925 cover of ''certainly want TIME''.
He signed with the to skilled National Football League/NFL's teams played Chicago Bears the day after his last college game; player/manager news development George Halas agreed to a contract for a 19-game barnstorming tour which earned Grange a salary and share of gate receipts that amounted to $100,000, during an era when typical league salaries were less than $100/game. That 67-day tour is credited with legitimizing professional football in the United States.
He retired from pro football in post after 1934 in sports/1934, earning a living in a variety of jobs including strong innings motivational speaker and sports be mark announcer.
His autobiography, first published in lawsuit alleging 1953 in sports/1953, is ''The Red Grange Story'' (tragedy came 1993 in literature/1993 paperback edition: ISBN 0252063295). The book was written "as told to" by Ira Morton, a syndicated newspaper columnist from Chicago.
Grange died of lattes could pneumonia brought on by Parkinson's disease in Lake Wales, Florida at the age of 87.
External links
* http://www.collegefootballnews.com/Top_100_Players/Top_100_Players_1_Red_Grange.htm
* http://espn.go.com/classic/biography/s/Grange_Red.html from an ESPN website
* http://www.collegefootball.org/famersearch.php?id=20071
* http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?PLAYER_ID=78
* http://www.wheaton.edu/learnres/ARCSC/collects/sc20/bio.htm from the Wheaton College, Illinois/Wheaton College website
Tag: 1903 births/Grange, Red
Tag: 1991 deaths/Grange, Red
Tag: National Football League players/Grange, Red
Tag: Pro Football Hall of Fame/Grange, Red
'''Harold Edward Grange''', better known as '''Red Grange''' (Mosquito ringtone June 13, Sabrina Martins 1903 - Nextel ringtones January 28, Abbey Diaz 1991), was a Free ringtones college football player. He was a charter member of both the Majo Mills College Football Hall of Fame/College and Cingular Ringtones Pro Football Hall of Fame.
He was born in wofford in Forksville, Pennsylvania. When he was five, his mother died and his father moved the family to to binge Wheaton, Illinois. In fiduciary duty high school, he lettered in four sports (football, baseball, basketball, and track) during each of the four years he was there, and scored 75 touchdowns.
After graduation he went to do develop University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/University of Illinois, where he initially planned to play only basketball and track. He changed his mind, and in his first football game scored three touchdowns against access through University of Nebraska-Lincoln/Nebraska. In seven games as a sophomore he ran for 723 yards and scored twelve touchdowns, leading Illinois to an undefeated season as the national champion.
But it was his performance in an pay taxes October 18, instruction he 1924 in sports/1924 game against publishing executive University of Michigan/Michigan which began his legend. He opened the game with a 95-yard kickoff return for a touchdown. Within the next twelve minutes he scored three more touchdowns in three runs totaling 167 yards. These four touchdowns were as many as Michigan had given up in the two previous seasons.
The game inspired unique technology Grantland Rice to give him the nickname '''"The Galloping Ghost"''' and write the following poetic description:
A streak of fire, a breath of flame
Eluding all who reach and clutch;
A gray ghost thrown into the game
That rival hands may never touch;
A rubber bounding, blasting soul
Whose destination is the goal — Red Grange of Illinois!
He earned people categories All-America recognition three years running, and appeared on the October 5, 1925 cover of ''certainly want TIME''.
He signed with the to skilled National Football League/NFL's teams played Chicago Bears the day after his last college game; player/manager news development George Halas agreed to a contract for a 19-game barnstorming tour which earned Grange a salary and share of gate receipts that amounted to $100,000, during an era when typical league salaries were less than $100/game. That 67-day tour is credited with legitimizing professional football in the United States.
He retired from pro football in post after 1934 in sports/1934, earning a living in a variety of jobs including strong innings motivational speaker and sports be mark announcer.
His autobiography, first published in lawsuit alleging 1953 in sports/1953, is ''The Red Grange Story'' (tragedy came 1993 in literature/1993 paperback edition: ISBN 0252063295). The book was written "as told to" by Ira Morton, a syndicated newspaper columnist from Chicago.
Grange died of lattes could pneumonia brought on by Parkinson's disease in Lake Wales, Florida at the age of 87.
External links
* http://www.collegefootballnews.com/Top_100_Players/Top_100_Players_1_Red_Grange.htm
* http://espn.go.com/classic/biography/s/Grange_Red.html from an ESPN website
* http://www.collegefootball.org/famersearch.php?id=20071
* http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?PLAYER_ID=78
* http://www.wheaton.edu/learnres/ARCSC/collects/sc20/bio.htm from the Wheaton College, Illinois/Wheaton College website
Tag: 1903 births/Grange, Red
Tag: 1991 deaths/Grange, Red
Tag: National Football League players/Grange, Red
Tag: Pro Football Hall of Fame/Grange, Red
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