    
Title: Harold Red Grange Description: Harold "Red" Grange (Harold Edward "Red" Grange; AKA; The Galloping Ghost; The Wheaton Iceman; 1903-1991), running back for Illinois, shown in 1924 when he ran for four touchdowns (95, 67, 56, 44 yards) in twelve minutes in the first quarter against unbeaten Michigan (scoring two more touchdowns in the game); he turned professional football player, playing for the Chicago Bears (1925) and for the short-lived New York Yankees (1926-1927); he was idolized in the 1920s as one of the superstar sports heroes of the Roaring Twenties, that included Babe Ruth (baseball), Jack Dempsey (boxing), and Bobby Jones (golf); he and his peers commanded soaring professional payments, which set the precedent for exorbitant professional sports salaries; Grange was offered $120,000 in his senior season of college football at Illinois by a real estate tycoon; collecting $12,000 for his first professional game with the Chicago Bears, and $30,000 for the next game; he signed a $300,000 movie contract and was even named in a petition nominating him for the U.S. Congress; in 2008, ESPN named Grange the greatest football player of all time; college football; football players; Keywords: gridiron, professional football, running backs, sports heroes Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 2250 x 2764 (6.22 MPixels) (1.23) Print Size: 19.0 x 23.4 cm; 7.5 x 9.2 inches File Size: 17.81 MB (18,679,338 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000095134 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
