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Marcus Ray
was an
All-American
member of the record-setting
1997 Michigan Wolverines football team
's defense?
"Ma" Newell
(pictured)
, one of the few four-year
All-Americans
in
college football
history, was run over by a railroad engine on
Christmas Eve
1897?
Louis Jordan
was the first
University of Texas
All-American
football
player and the first Texas officer killed in action in
World War I
?
Julius Franks
was the first
African-American
Michigan Wolverines football
player to earn
All-American
honors?
Hugh Knox
, son of the
U.S. Secretary of State
and
Attorney General
, was an
All-American
halfback
at
Yale
?
"Moose" Englehorn
, who played for
Washington State
and
Dartmouth College
, was the oldest living
All-American
football
player when he died in 1993 at age 103?
actor
Nate Parker
was an
All-American
wrestler
in both high school and college?
three-time
All-American
Eddie Mahan
was named by
Jim Thorpe
as the greatest
football
player of all time?
twice named
All-American
football
tackle
Robert "Brick" Wahl
later became
CEO
of a
Fortune 500
irrigation equipment company?
in 1899
Isaac Seneca
became the first
Native American
to be named as an
All-American
football
player while playing
halfback
for the
Carlisle Indian School
?
flags at the
University of Iowa
were flown at half-mast following the death from
peritonitis
of
Jim Trickey
, one year after he became the first
Hawkeye
to win
All-American
honors in 1912?
despite being an
All-American
running back
with the
University of Evansville
,
Sean Bennett
played
fullback
at
Northwestern
?
Gaynell Tinsley
, a two-time
All-American
end
at
LSU
, set an
NFL
record with 675 receiving yards as a rookie in 1937?
Frederick Josiah Bradlee
was a
Boston Brahmin
, an
All-American
halfback
and the father of
Washington Post
editor
Ben Bradlee
?
Harvard
All-American
Sam Felton
averaged between 60 and 70 yards (55 to 64 meters) on
football
punts
in 1912?
Michigan Wolverines football
player
Bill Yearby
was an
All-American
football player as well as a champion
shot putter
who the coaches felt could have starred for the
Wolverines
basketball
team?
gridiron football
defensive end
Justin Brown
was named in six
All-American
teams when playing at
East Central University
from 2001 to 2004?
Brown
's
All-American
135-pound
quarterback
"Kid" Crowther
played with an elastic band around his head in lieu of a helmet?
All-American
Rickey Dixon
set several school
interception
records with the
1987 Oklahoma Sooners football team
?
Northwestern
's
Max Morris
was a consensus
All-American
in both
basketball
and
football
, played both sports professionally, and twice led the
Big Ten
in scoring?
Pitt
All-American
Tom Davies
threw a
touchdown
pass
, ran 80 yards for a touchdown, returned a kickoff 90 yards and returned an
interception
60 yards in the same game?
College Sports Information Directors of America
has conferred Academic
All-American
to athletes in all
National Collegiate Athletic Association
championship sports since 1952?
Bill Dague
was the first consensus
All-American
football
player from the
United States Naval Academy
?
Yale
's two-time
All-American
"Bo" Bomeisler
, called "King of the Hard Luck Players," had his foot crushed by a trolley car on
Brooklyn
's
Flatbush Avenue
in 1914?
Nebraska
's first
All-American
Vic Halligan
was called "The premier punter of the West, A master of the forward pass, A tackler equal to the best"?
1933
Michigan Wolverines football
All-Americans
Ted Petoskey
and
Whitey Wistert
debuted for the
Major League Baseball
Cincinnati Reds
two days apart in September 1934?
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