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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: OrangeAfroMan on July 23, 2018, 09:24:37 PM

Title: Best #62
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on July 23, 2018, 09:24:37 PM: This one is better. 4 days to vote. Use your brain....and eyes...and clicker finger.
Title: Re: Best #62
Post by: Hawkeye0111 on July 24, 2018, 12:51:33 AM: Cal Jones is one of two Iowa players to have their numbers retired (along with Nile Kinnick). He was a first team All-American in 1953,1954, and 1955. In 1954, he was a consensus first-team All-American despite playing the entire year with a broken wrist. Although the magazine was still in its infancy (7th issue), he was the first college football player and first African-American to be featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1954. He was the first African-American player to win the Outland Trophy (1955). He was drafted by the Lions but refused to sign because of pay discrepancies between white and black players. Unfortunately, he only played one year in the CFL before dying in a plane crash on the way back home from the CFL East-West All-Star game.
Title: Re: Best #62
Post by: ELA on July 24, 2018, 08:47:55 AM: Torn between Parker, Jones, Cody and Trippi.

Charley Trippi is still alive? Deserves some points just for that.
Title: Re: Best #62
Post by: Entropy on July 24, 2018, 10:35:52 AM: a lot of good players that seem equal. I went with Cody. Not sure if there is a wrong answer here..
Title: Re: Best #62
Post by: Cincydawg on July 24, 2018, 12:03:52 PM: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley_Trippi

Tripping hit .475 in college baseball. Many think he is the best athlete ever to play at UGA.

No brainier to me.
Title: Re: Best #62
Post by: Cincydawg on July 24, 2018, 04:03:37 PM: And Trippi is still alive at 94.
Title: Re: Best #62
Post by: ELA on July 24, 2018, 04:16:03 PM: Quote from: ELA on July 24, 2018, 08:47:55 AM
Torn between Parker, Jones, Cody and Trippi.

Charley Trippi is still alive? Deserves some points just for that.

Quote from: Cincydawg on July 24, 2018, 04:03:37 PM
And Trippi is still alive at 94.
I was shocked too
Title: Re: Best #62
Post by: Cincydawg on July 24, 2018, 06:32:30 PM: They interview him from time to time at half time. He lives in Athens, quite a guy by all accounts.
Title: Re: Best #62
Post by: Cincydawg on July 24, 2018, 06:35:25 PM: He played with the Heisman winner in 1942 and both fought in the war of course.

UGA pulled guys out of PA and IL and OH a lot back then. Remember Zeke Bratkowski?
Title: Re: Best #62
Post by: FearlessF on July 24, 2018, 06:36:48 PM: Zeke played for the GB Packers
Title: Re: Best #62
Post by: Cincydawg on July 24, 2018, 06:51:13 PM: Quote from: FearlessF on July 24, 2018, 06:36:48 PM
Zeke played for the GB Packers
Yup, and the Dawgs.
Title: Re: Best #62
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on July 24, 2018, 07:27:31 PM: Quote from: Cincydawg on July 24, 2018, 04:03:37 PM
And Trippi is still alive at 94.
Yeah, but his 40 time is awful now.
Title: Re: Best #62
Post by: ELA on July 24, 2018, 07:34:16 PM: Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on July 24, 2018, 07:27:31 PM
Yeah, but his 40 time is awful now.
It was probably pretty lousy back then too. But it was like Mount Union playing D3 opponents.
Title: Re: Best #62
Post by: FearlessF on July 24, 2018, 10:16:16 PM: Quote from: Cincydawg on July 24, 2018, 06:51:13 PM
Yup, and the Dawgs.
as did my hero Tarkenton
Sir Francis was better
Title: Re: Best #62
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on July 26, 2018, 05:41:54 PM: This is a good one! C'mon, someone cast a deciding vote!
Title: Re: Best #62
Post by: Cincydawg on July 26, 2018, 06:02:25 PM: https://www.dawgnation.com/football/team-news/georgia-greats-charlie-trippi-leaves-lasting-legacy-in-athens

He replaced the Heisman winner at HB as a sophomore, and punted and played QB.