Francis Joseph "Boley" Dancewicz ( ; October 3, 1924 – June 26, 1985) 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 with ...

quarterback The quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB"), colloquially known as the "signal caller", is a position in gridiron football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive platoon and mostly line up directly behind the offensive line. In modern Ame ...

who played professionally in the

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. He was the first overall pick in the

1946 NFL Draft The 1946 National Football League Draft was held on January 14, 1946, at the Commodore Hotel in New York City, New York. The selections were initially withheld from the public out of fear that the newly formed All-America Football Conference wou ...

by the

Boston Yanks The Boston Yanks were a National Football League team based in Boston, Massachusetts, that played from 1944 to 1948. The team played its home games at Fenway Park. Any games that conflicted with the Boston Red Sox baseball schedule in the Ameri ...

. He was a quarterback at Notre Dame and later played three seasons of pro football. His son, Gary Dancewicz, played at Boston College. Grandson Chris Pizzotti was a quarterback at Harvard.

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* 1924 births 1985 deaths Sportspeople from Lynn, Massachusetts Players of American football from Massachusetts American football quarterbacks Notre Dame Fighting Irish football players National Football League first-overall draft picks Boston Yanks players Wilmington Clippers players {{quarterback-1920s-stub