Forrest Edwin Behm (July 31, 1919 – June 29, 2015) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wit ...

player. He played college football for the

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. He was elected to the

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in 1988. In 1992, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Nebraska.

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