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- Feb. 11, 1991: Died:Harold ("Red") Grange
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 74
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- <p> DIED. Harold ("Red") Grange, 87, artful, wing-footed running
- back (the "Galloping Ghost"), whose heroic exploits gave
- professional football its first and decisive respectability;
- in Lake Wales, Fla. Grange's fame took flight in 1924 when his
- University of Illinois team beat undefeated Michigan 39-14. In
- the first 12 minutes of the game, he took the opening kickoff
- 95 yds. for a touchdown and ran for three more; later he scored
- another touchdown, and still later threw a pass for a sixth.
- In the 1920s and '30s, Grange had a similarly astonishing pro
- career with the Chicago Bears, and also tried his hand
- variously as an assistant coach, sports broadcaster and movie
- actor (The Galloping Ghost), before settling down in Florida
- as a businessman.
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