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1947 All-Big Nine Conference Football Team
The 1947 All-Big Nine Conference football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Big Nine Conference teams selected by the Associated Press (AP), United Press (UP) and the International News Service (INS) for the 1947 Big Nine Conference football season. The top vote getters in the AP voting by conference coaches were Leo Nomellini, Bob Chappuis, and Bump Elliott, each receiving 16 of 18 possible points. All Big-Ten selections Ends * Bob Mann, Michigan (AP-1, INS-1, UP-1) * Ike Owens, Illinois (AP-1, INS-1, UP-1) *Len Ford, Michigan (AP-2, INS-2, UP-2) * Lou Mihajlovich, Indiana (AP-2, INS-2) Tackles * Phil O'Reilly, Purdue (AP-1, INS-1, UP-1) * Lou Agase, Illinois (AP-1, INS-1) * Bill Pritula, Michigan (AP-2, INS-2, UP-1) *Dean Widseth, Minnesota (AP-2, INS-2) Guards * Howard Brown, Indiana (AP-1, INS-1, UP-1) * Leo Nomellini, Minnesota (AP-1, INS-1, UP-1) * Dominic Tomasi, Michigan (AP-2, INS-2) *John Wrenn, Illinois (AP-2, INS-2) Centers * Red Wilson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1947 Big Nine Conference Football Season
The 1947 Big Nine Conference football season was the 52nd season of college football played by the member schools of the Big Nine Conference (also known as the Western Conference and the Big Ten Conference) and was a part of the 1947 college football season. The 1947 Big Ten champion was Michigan. The Wolverines compiled a perfect 10–0 record, outscored its opponents by a combined total of 394 to 53, and defeated the USC Trojans by a score of 49 to 0 in the 1948 Rose Bowl game. Michigan halfback Bob Chappuis led the conference with 1,395 yards of total offense, which was also the fourth best in the country. Chappuis also finished second in the voting for the 1947 Heisman Trophy, trailing Johnny Lujack by a tally of 742 votes to 555 votes, with both finishing ahead of Doak Walker and Bobby Layne. Wisconsin finished in second place in the conference, led by sophomore halfback Jug Girard. Girard, a triple-threat man who also returned two punts for touchdowns, was the first con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ike Owens (American Football)
Isiah Hudson Owens (January 8, 1920 – June 14, 1980) was an American football player. Owens was born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1920. He moved to Gary, Indiana, as a boy and attended Theodore Roosevelt High School in that city. Owens enrolled at the University of Illinois in 1940, but his college career was interrupted by four years of service in the Air Corps during World War II. After the war, Owens returned to the University of Illinois where he became one of the school's first African-American football stars. He played for the Illinois Fighting Illini football team in 1941, 1946, and 1947. Illinois coach Ray Eliot called him one of "the greatest ends in Illinois football history." He received numerous honors during his playing career at Illinois, including the following: * In 1946, he was selected by the United Press (UP) as a first-team player on the 1946 All-Big Nine Conference football team. * He was selected by his teammates as the most valuable player on the 1947 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Weisenburger
John Edward Weisenburger (August 2, 1926 – March 25, 2019) was an American football and baseball player. He played college football for the University of Michigan from 1944 to 1947 and was the starting fullback for the undefeated 1947 Michigan Wolverines football team that became known as the "Mad Magicians" and has been rated as the greatest football team in Michigan history. He later played professional baseball for five years from 1948 to 1952. Early years Weisenburger was born in Muskegon County, Michigan in August 1926. His father, Merle Weisenburger, was an Ohio native who worked as a laborer in a pattern shop. His mother, Ada Weisenburger, was a Michigan native. At the time of the 1930 United States Census, Weisenburger lived in Norton Shores, Michigan with his parents and two brothers, Robert (born c. 1923) and Kenneth (born c. 1929). He attended Muskegon Heights High School where he played varsity football (three years), basketball (two years), baseball (four yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Taliaferro
George Taliaferro (January 8, 1927 – October 8, 2018) was a professional American football player who was the first African American drafted by a National Football League (NFL) team. Beginning his football career at Indiana University for the Hoosiers team, he played in the NFL for the New York Yanks from 1950 to 1951, the Dallas Texans in 1952, the Baltimore Colts from 1953 to 1954, and Philadelphia Eagles in 1955. Taliaferro was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1981. Early life Taliaferro was born in Gates, Tennessee. Before his college years, he moved to Gary, Indiana, where he graduated from Gary Roosevelt High School. Career College football He would play a variety of positions for Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana from 1945 to 1948 as halfback, quarterback, defensive back, and kicker. He struggled with prejudice of the time during his studies at Indiana that ranged from being barred from living in the dormitories to conflicting attitudes fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Szulborski
Harry Marion Szulborski (May 23, 1927 – August 4, 2017) was an American football player and coach. Szulborski played college football as a halfback for Purdue University from 1946 to 1949 and was selected a first-team player on the 1947 and 1948 All-Big Nine Conference football teams. He led the conference with 631 rushing yards in 1948. He was later inducted into the Purdue Hall of Fame and Indiana Football Hall of Fame. Szulborski was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the eighth round of the 1950 NFL Draft but did not play for the team. In the early 1950s, he became an assistant football coach at Emerson High School in Gary, Indiana Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States. The city has been historically dominated by major industrial activity and is home to U.S. Steel's Gary Works, the largest steel mill complex in North America. Gary is located along the sou .... He served as the school's head football coach from 1962 to 1974 and compiled a 36–81 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perry Moss
Perry Lee Moss (August 4, 1926 – August 7, 2014) was an American football player, coach, and executive. Moss played tailback at the University of Tulsa and quarterback at Illinois during the 1940s. As a Tulsa tailback, he was on the Orange Bowl team that beat Georgia Tech, 26–12, in the 1945 Orange Bowl and later as an Illinois T-quarterback, he directed a Rose Bowl team which routed UCLA, 45–14, in 1947. Moss served two years in the United States Air Force between his playing time at Tulsa and Illinois. At Illinois, he was named to All-Big Ten Conference and All-American teams. He was drafted in 1948 by the Green Bay Packers in the 13th round (111th pick overall) and played at the professional level for one year before returning to Illinois as an assistant. He started one game at quarterback for the Packers. Moss served as head baseball coach and backfield coach at the University of Miami in 1955 and University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1958. In 1959, he was named as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Yerges
Howard Frederick Yerges Jr. (April 5, 1925 – December 24, 2000) was an American college football player who played quarterback for the Ohio State Buckeyes football team in 1943 and the University of Michigan Wolverines football teams from 1944 to 1947. He was the starting quarterback of the 1947 Michigan Wolverines football team that went undefeated, beat USC 49-0 in the Rose Bowl and is considered by some to be the greatest Michigan football team of all time. As of 2009, Yerges was one of three players (along with Justin Boren and J. T. White) to play on both sides of the Michigan–Ohio State football rivalry. Playing career Yerges was a native of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. He played quarterback for Grandview Heights High School in the Grandview Heights section of Columbus, Ohio. His father, Howard Yerges Sr., played for the Ohio State Buckeyes in the 1910s and later played professional football for the Columbus Panhandles in 1920. Yerges began his collegiate footb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Wilson
Robert James "Red" Wilson (March 7, 1929 – August 8, 2014) was a professional baseball and college baseball and football player. He played 10 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox (1951–1954), Detroit Tigers (1954–1960), and Cleveland Indians (1960), primarily as a catcher. University of Wisconsin Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Wilson attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he was a star football player for the Wisconsin Badgers. He won Most Valuable Player honors as the center for the Badgers football team in 1947 and 1948, and was also an all-conference center in 1947. In his senior year, 1949, Wilson was the team captain and won the Big Ten Most Valuable Player award as an end. Besides, he led the Badgers baseball team in hitting with batting averages of .342 and .426 in 1948 and 1949, respectively. As a pitcher, he posted a 17–7 record and earned a spot in the 1950 College World Series. He graduated from Wisconsin in 1951 as an insu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominic Tomasi
Dominic Tomasi (February 11, 1928 - December 1, 1986) was an American football player who played guard for the University of Michigan Wolverines. He was a four-year starter and was selected as both the captain and Most Valuable Player of the National Champion 1948 Michigan Wolverines football team. High school A native of Flint, Michigan, Tomasi attended Flint Northern High School. In 1944, at age 16, the 5 foot, 8 inch, 178 pound Tomasi was selected by the Associated Press to its All-Michigan football team at the guard position. University of Michigan In 1945, Tomasi enrolled at the University of Michigan where he played both football for Fritz Crisler and baseball for Ray Fischer. Tomasi was a four-year starter for the 1945, 1946, 1947 and 1948 Michigan Wolverines football teams that won 23 straight games (including undefeated seasons in 1947 and 1948), defeated USC, 49-0, in the 1948 Rose Bowl. During his sophomore year, Tomasi's photograph was published in newspape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Pritula
William Pritula (March 10, 1922 – January 24, 2006) was an American football player. He played college football as the starting right tackle for Fritz Crisler's Michigan Wolverines football teams in 1942, 1946, and 1947. He was one of Michigan's "Seven Oak Posts" line in 1942, made famous for their durability and two-way playing, and was also a key blocker for the 1947 offensive unit known as the "Mad Magicians." Pritula was born in 1922 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but moved with his parents to Detroit as a child. His father, Ivan Prytula, immigrated from Austrian-Hungarian Empire in 1911. Pritula attended Chadsey High School in Detroit. He enrolled at the University of Michigan and played at the right tackle position for the Michigan Wolverines football team from 1941–1942 and 1946–1947. After serving as a backup center in 1941, Pritula started all ten games at right tackle for the 1942 team. With the roster depleted due to the war, Pritula was one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lou Agase
Lou Agase (August 2, 1924 – June 26, 2006) was an American gridiron football player and coach of Assyrian ancestry. Agase played tight end and offensive tackle for the Illinois Fighting Illini football team from 1944 to 1947. He was a member of the Illini team that won the 1947 Rose Bowl. He was selected by the Green Bay Packers with the 131st pick of the 1948 NFL Draft, but never played a game for the team. During the 1948–49 and 1949–50 school years, Agase was a teacher at Paxton High School in Paxton, Illinois. He coached football and track for the Mustangs and also started the school's first wrestling team. His two-year coaching record in football was 9–7. On July 30, 1950, Agase returned to Illinois as an assistant coach. In 1955, he moved to Michigan State, where he was the Spartan's defensive line coach under Duffy Daugherty. During Mr. Agase's tenure as an assistant, MSU's football team won the Rose Bowl in 1956. On December 4, 1959, Agase was named head c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lou Mihajlovich
Louis Mihajlovich (February 19, 1925 – December 11, 1994) was a defensive end in the National Football League. Biography Mihajlovich was born on February 19, 1925, in Detroit, Michigan. Career Mihajlovich's first professional experience was with the Los Angeles Dons of the All-America Football Conference. Later he played with the Green Bay Packers during the 1954 NFL season. He played at the collegiate level at Indiana University. See also *List of Green Bay Packers players The following is a list of notable past or present players of the Green Bay Packers professional American football team. All-time roster * Green Bay Packers players: A-D * Green Bay Packers players: E-K * Green Bay Packers players: L-R * Green Bay ... References 1925 births 1994 deaths Players of American football from Detroit Green Bay Packers players Los Angeles Dons players American football defensive ends Indiana Hoosiers football players {{defensive-lineman-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |