Red Grange
Red Grange
Harold Edward "Red" Grange, nicknamed "The Galloping Ghost" or "The Galloping Red Ghost,"was a college and professional American football halfback for the University of Illinois, the Chicago Bears, and for the short-lived New York Yankees. His signing with the Bears helped legitimize the National Football League. He was a charter member of both the College and Pro Football Halls of Fame. In 1924, Grange became the first recipient of the Chicago Tribune Silver Football award denoting the Big Ten's most...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth13 June 1903
CountryUnited States of America
I don't care how complicated they make the game seem, it's really based on two principles and those are blocking and tackling.
The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.
I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.
I played football the only way I knew. If you have the football and 11 guys are after you - if you're smart - you'll run. It was no big deal.
Every football player knows when his time is up.
No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it.
A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place.