This is an amazing 8.4 yards per carry. He scored the three touchdowns in less than seven minutes against the powerful Michigan defense. Grange founded another team, remained together till his death in 1991. He scored a total of 2,365 points in 247 games.About Harold "Red" Grange, http: //www.wheaton.edu/learnres/arcsc/collects/sc20/bio.htmEncarta Encyclopedia, http: //www.encarta.com/find/Concise.asp?z=1&pg=2&ti=05948000&o=1Professional Football Hall of Fame, http: //www.profootballhof.com/enshrinees/grange.html Encyclopedia of World Biography. The team was playing their first game in the brand new University of Illinois Memorial Stadium. Grange's father opened a moving business. He died on January 28, 1991 in Lake Wales, at the age of 87. He was nicknamed He achieved excellence in track field and field runner. To commemorate college football’s 100th anniversary in 1969, the Football Writers Association of America chose an all-time All-America team. Red Grange was born on June 13, 1903 in Forksville, Pennsylvania, United States. Januar 1991 Lake Wales, Florida: Karriereinformationen Aktiv: 1925–1934: College: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Teams Chicago Bears (1925); New York Yankees (1926 (), 1927); Chicago Bears (1929–1934) In 1920, he was declared state titleholder in the high jump and was 3rd in the 100-yard dash and fourth in the 220-yard dash. This was the only time that Grange was ever seriously injured in a high school football game, despite the many hard tackles he received during those years.Grange attended college at the University of Illinois, but decided not to play football. It was his Zeta Psi fraternity brothers who convinced him to try out for the team.
Until that time, the game had been generally ignored by all but students.
By then his father had become the local policeman, and the family was well settled. The book was written "as told to" Ira Morton, a syndicated newspaper columnist from Chicago. He had difficulty speaking for a time after that injury. Red Grange, byname of Harold Edward Grange, (born June 13, 1903, Forksville, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died January 28, 1991, Lake Wales, Florida), American collegiate and professional gridiron football player and broadcaster who was an outstanding halfback, known for spectacular long runs that made him one of the most famous players of the 20th century. It is a single player record that still stands in high school championship games.In Grange's senior year of high school, his team finally lost a game 39-0 to the powerful Scott High School in Toledo, Ohio. To the great disbelief of almost everyone in football, he agreed to pay Grange the staggering sum of one hundred thousand dollars a year and a share of the gate receipts. A New York Giant lineman yelled loudly back at his linebackers, "Look out!
Part of the reason may have been that Grange was knocked unconscious during the game, and he remained so for the next two days. In Grange's senior year of high school, his team finally lost a game 39-0 to the powerful Scott High School in Toledo, Ohio.
Red Grange played halfback, blocking back, defensive back, tailback. Illinois won with a score of 39-14.There were many accolades, and Chicago sportswriter Warren Brown nicknamed Grange Immediately after his leaving the University, he joined the Football League.There was a disagreement between Grange and Chicago Bears resulting in his leaving the team. "He was right, for 32 year old Grange swivel-hipped around every younger player in the Giants backfield and ran 63 yards, all the way to the twenty-yard line before a faster runner finally stopped him. Illinois players knew they had a difficult job ahead of them if they expected to win. It was a nickname that remained with Grange for the rest of his life, and was eventually emblazoned in the Professional Football Hall of Fame.Jerry Liska, an Associated Press reporter, wrote in his book Professional football was a generally unpleasant sandlot game with few fans in 1925. about the game that October day, famed sportswriter Grantland Rice called Grange a "whirling dervish runner," and named him "The Galloping Ghost." Harold Edward "Red" Grange was born on June 13, 1903 in Forksville, a village of about 200 people in an area of Pennsylvania lumber camps. Most considered him to be not only one of the greatest players in history, but the man who established professional football as a fan attraction.Grantland Rice wrote a flowery poem of tribute to Grange: "A streak of fire, a breath of flame, a gray ghost thrown into the game. Red, the color of danger, strawberries, Coca-cola and blood. Grange was only five years old when his mother died. Grange spent his retirement years with his wife in Lake Wales, Florida. He was an important … Grange drew an astounding sixty five thousand people to the Polo Grounds in New York with his amazing broken-field running. His father was a foreman and mother died when Red was five years of age.
The family was not financially stable and had to find shelter with their relatives.
He had difficulty speaking for a time after that injury. He had initially planned to play only basketball and track but was coaxed into changing his mind by his fraternity. The word “ruby” comes from the Latin word rubens, meaning “red”. In his final high school game for the DuPage County championship against Downers Grove, Grange scored forty-five points. Before the end of the year, he was named an All American and he was known across America. On the very next offensive play, Grange ran for a 67-yard touchdown. In 1922, when the call went out for freshmen football candidates to report to the field for practice, Grange didn't even answer. He was enshrined as a charter member in the Professional Football Hall of Fame in 1963. It was dedication day for the largest campus stadium in college sports, so local fans wanted a victory desperately. In his first collegiate football game, he scored three touchdowns against Nebraska.In seven games as a sophomore he ran for 723 yards and scored 12 touchdowns, leading Illinois to an undefeated season and the 1923 Helms Athletic Foundatio… Grange also earned a good income from vaudeville and movie appearances. Grange is credited with the wave of interest Americans began to show in football. He was in the spotlight wherever he played, even as his career was winding down. Grange worked as an ‘ice cream man’ to support his family.