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	MSN Encarta - Red Grange
		Grange was a major college star and played an important role in attracting a wider audience for professional football during its early years.
		Harold Edward Grange was born in Forksville, Pennsylvania, and moved to Wheaton, Illinois, as a child.
		During his notable college athletic career Grange was named to three All-American football teams, in 1923 and 1924 as a halfback and in 1925 as a quarterback.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761574306/Grange_Red.html (344 words)

	Red Grange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harold Edward Grange, better known as Red Grange (June 13, 1903 - January 28, 1991), was a college football player.
		Grange married his wife Margaret, nicknamed Muggs, in 1941 and they were together until his death in 1991.
		Grange died of pneumonia brought on by parkinsons disease in Lake Wales, Florida at the age of 87.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Red_Grange (844 words)

	HickokSports.com - Biography - Red Grange
		Grange responded by scoring touchdowns the first four times he touched the ball, in twelve minutes of the first quarter.
		Grange's knee was badly injured in a game against the Bears, and he was never again the same player.
		Grange alertly pinioned the runner's arms to keep him from lateraling the ball and then threw him to the ground.
	www.hickoksports.com /biograph/grangered.shtml (760 words)

	Encyclopedia: Red Grange (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Harold E. Grange was born in the small hamlet of Forksville, Pennsylvania with a population of about 200 at the time.
		Grange was born on June 13, 1903, the third child of Sadie and Lyle Grange.
		Grange entered the University of Illinois in the fall of 1922 and pledged the Zeta Psi fraternity.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Red-Grange (2557 words)

	100 Greatest Players ... No. 1 Red Grange (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Harold "Red" Grange is known more for being the player who put professional football on the map showcased in the George Halas and C.C. Pyle barnstorming show, but the reason the Chicago Bears made so much money and were so successful was because of the the popularity and fame that Grange attained in college.
		Among the greats of the time was Grange who was also known as the Galloping Ghost (and the Wheaton Iceman because he got so strong from his summer job carrying ice) and was one of college football's greatest breakaway threats.
		Nicknamed Red because of his fire-color hair, Grange was a high-school star in several sports earning a total of sixteen letters in baseball, basketball and track, but his real talent was on the football field scoring 74 touchdowns.
	www.collegefootballnews.com /Top_100_Players/Top_100_Players_1_Red_Grange.htm (739 words)

	ESPN Classic - Galloping Ghost scared opponents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Red Grange was the name, though he was commonly known as The Galloping Ghost.
		Grange ran for 96 yards and had an interception in a 0-0 tie with the Chicago Cardinals.
		Grange played in 17 games (injury kept him out of the other two) and when the tour ended on Jan. 31, 1926, he went home to Wheaten weary but wealthy, driving a new $5,500 Lincoln and wearing a $500 raccoon coat.
	sports.espn.go.com /classic/biography/s/Grange_Red.html (1395 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Grange's Appellation Was No Exaggeration
		And 12 fleeting minutes after the opening kickoff had blown up in their faces on a 95-yard runback by Grange, the Wolverines were a thunderstruck and destroyed team.
		And lest it be thought that Grange was a one-dimension who could merely run to goal lines, he threw six completed passes for the Illini that day, one for a touchdown.
		To be remembered is that he was one of the lions of the Golden Twenties: Ruth, Dempsey, Tilden, Jones and Red Grange.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/longterm/general/povich/launch/grange.htm (760 words)

	About Harold "Red" Grange
		For many years the Grange boys and their father lived in various places with various relatives until they could afford a place of their own.
		When Grange was a child, Wheaton did not have a YMCA, so Grange and his friends played football in vacant lots and basketball in converted barn lofts.
		Grange recalled that he didn't date at all in school because he didn't have the money, nor suitable clothing.
	www.wheaton.edu /learnres/arcsc/collects/sc20/bio.htm (441 words)

	NFL.com: NFL - Decade Moment: Twenties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The influential sportswriter Damon Runyon once said of Harold (Red) Grange: "On the field, he is the equal of three men and a horse."
		In the late fall of 1925 and the early winter of 1926, Grange needed the strength and stamina of three men and a team of horses to survive what the Chicago Bears and his agent, C.C. Pyle, devised for him.
		Grange thrilled the crowd by scoring 4 touchdowns in a 39-6 victory against a team hastily made up of semipros and NFL players.
	www.nfl.com /news/hof/20moments.html (986 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports > NFL > Jerry Magee -- Players owe debt to Ghost who turned NFL around
		It was Grange and that "breath of flame" that came from him that for the first time attracted throngs to football as it is when it is played for money and gave the NFL a basis for what it has become – the game of our times.
		Grange's legacy to the players who have followed him is one they should appreciate every time they pick up their considerable paychecks.
		All Grange would say was, "I got a fair deal." What he got likely was a percentage of the gate, and there were a lot of gates.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/nfl/magee/20031102-9999_1s2nflcol.html (721 words)

	ESPN.com: Ghost of Illinois
		Grange, a three-time All-American halfback at Illinois and the player who put the NFL on the map, was voted No. 28 among North American athletes of the 20th century by SportsCentury's distinguished 48-person panel.
		Grange was surprised that the opening kickoff was directed to him.
		Grange was Illinois state high school champion in the 100- and 220-yard dashes and the long jump.
	espn.go.com /sportscentury/features/00014216.html (791 words)

	H-Net Review: Derek Catsam on Red Grange and the Rise of Modern Football
		He reveals how Grange's humble upbringing in Wheaton, Illinois, which at the turn of the century was on the way to becoming a part of suburban Chicago, but which at the same time was still rural in outlook and lifestyle.
		Oddly, Grange, who helped to popularize the college game and to make it a national pastime, also was caught up in some of the controversies that would grow to characterize the sport in the decades to come.
		In fact, central to Grange's role in popularizing the professional game were the tours on which he embarked after the NFL season ended in 1925 and the American Football League ended in 1926.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=196671063954445 (1493 words)

	The LOC.GOV Wise Guide : Football
		However, it was Red Grange, famed as the "galloping ghost," who won national recognition in 1924 when he rushed for 402 yards and scored five touchdowns in a game against the University of Michigan.
		When Red Grange signed to play with the Chicago Bears in 1925, he provided an enormous boost to the team and to the new National Football League.
		Grange attracted photographers wherever he went, such as in this staged "photo opportunity" (below) with a pretty young woman kicking a football.
	www.loc.gov /wiseguide/jan03/football.html (372 words)

	Vintage Photography - Red Grange (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Harold Edward Grange is widely known as the player who popularized pro football.
		Grange, and his ghostlike speed seemed to be the answer.
		Grange, an ice deliveryman during his college summers, agreed to play with Bears.
	www.artletics.com /football_vp_grange.htm (140 words)

	Red Grange and the Rise of Modern Football:Carroll, John M.:0252023846:eCampus.com
		Red Grange and the Rise of Modern Football:Carroll, John M.:0252023846:eCampus.com
		Grange's star rose in tandem with that of the sport itself.
		With a natural talent and down-home image that helped legitimize professional football, Grange became one of the first athlete-heroes and the first major sports figure to serve as a play-by-play broadcast commentator.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?ISBN=0252023846 (212 words)

	Red Grange
		Red Grange was the first football player to have a personal representative, an agent they are called now, to work out playing agreements.
		Grange was the first professional athlete in team sports whose pay was linked with the number of fans his fame and performance attracted to the games.
		Before Grange’s meteoric career on the gridiron, college football was largely a campus game of interest to students and alumni; but by the time Grange’s all-American career was finished at the University of Illinois, millions who had no particular interest in a college were aware of the Galloping Ghost and college football.
	www.dupageheritage.org /yps/grange.html (1613 words)

	Professional Football Researchers Association- Pro Football History
		Red Grange, the greatest name in football, was everyone's hero.
		Despite the increased status gained by the Grange Tours of 1925, pro football in general and the NFL in particular still ranked far behind college football as an attraction.
		Red, who was certainly no pawn, knew full well that Pyle was his way to the lion's share in that lions' den.
	www.footballresearch.com /articles/frpage.cfm?topic=00-1926 (3984 words)

	NFL.com - TV & Radio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Red Grange changed the future landscape of the NFL in the 1920's by making it respectable for college players to turn professional, thus paving the way for modern day football stars.
		Grange was an American folk hero while playing running back at the University of Illinois.
		Grange and 18 of his teammates set out on a four-month, 25-game barnstorming tour playing against various pro and college teams across the country.
	www.nfl.com /tvradio/story/6116399 (547 words)

	Red Grange and the Rise of Modern Football (Sport and Society) by John M. Carroll : Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Red Grange was one of the certified heroes of an era that produced the anchors to any sporting hall of fame -- Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bill Tilden, Bobby Jones -- but Red Grange and the Rise of Modern Football is no simple exercise in hero-worship.
		A true superstar, Grange was a reluctant idol, letting his actions speak for him.
		In an era before big athletic scholarships, Grange paid for his education by delivering ice in the summer, a job that made him stronger than most of the defense men he'd regularly bowl over.
	www.crimsonbird.com /cgi-bin/a.cgi?j=0252023846 (444 words)

	37¢ Red Grange PSA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the words of the famous sportswriter Grantland Rice, Red Grange was "three or four men and a horse rolled into one for football purposes." Born on June 13, 1903, in Forksville, Pennsylvania, Harold "Red" Grange became one of the greatest running backs to ever play American football.
		Grange began by scoring a 95-yard touchdown on the opening kickoff, and astonishingly proceeded to score three more touchdowns within the first 12 minutes of play (he later scored a fifth touchdown and threw for a sixth).
		A charter enshrinee of both the College and Pro Football Halls of Fame, Red Grange was selected for the cover of Sports Illustrated's 1991 special issue honoring the greatest moments in sports.
	www.unicover.com /EA1CC20J.HTM (456 words)

	John M. Carroll / Red Grange and the Rise of Modern Football
		Red Grange and the Rise of Modern Football
		He, Babe Ruth, and Jack Dempsey were among the nation's most heralded figures during the "golden age of sport" of the 1920s, and he was also on the cover of Sports Illustrated when that magazine did a special issue in 1991 on the greatest moments in sports.
		'Red' Grange (1903-91), the most significant American football player of the 20th century.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /s04/carroll.html (311 words)

	Member - Pro Football Hall of Fame
		Grange, who worked as an ice deliveryman during his college summers agreed to play for the Bears.
		Sensing that a rare opportunity was at hand, Grange's agent, C. "Cash and Carry" Pyle, Halas and Sternaman, lined up an exhausting “barnstorming tour” of the country winning thousands of new fans for pro football.
		Pyle was allowed to move his team into the NFL in 1927 but Grange suffered a crippling knee injury during a game against the Bears.
	www.profootballhof.com /hof/member.jsp?PLAYER_ID=78 (419 words)

	ESPN.com: Galloping Ghost scared opponents
		Red Grange was so great and popular in college that immediately after signing him as a professional, the Chicago Bears put together a grueling 19-game, 67-day barnstorming tour to make money.
		The storybook life of Harold (later to be called Red) Grange began on June 13, 1903 in Forksville, Pa. After his mother died when he was 5, his father Lyle, a foreman for a lumber company, moved the family to Wheaton, Ill., where four brothers had settled.
		The Yankees, though, joined the NFL, but in the third game of the 1927 season, Grange suffered such a severe knee injury that he never was the same dashing runner he had been.
	espn.go.com /sportscentury/features/00014213.html (1271 words)

	homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Grange was nicknamed the Galloping Ghost after scoring five touchdowns the first five times he carried the ball in a 1924 game between the universities of Illinois and Michigan.
		Grange was inducted into the Professional Football Hall of Fame in 1963.He played proffessional football with the Chicago Bears from 1925-1934.
		Red Grange was a Hollywood football idol, and later became one of the first play-by-play broadcaster commentators that used to be an athlete-hero.
	www.msu.edu /~reedholl/homepage.htm (305 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Red Grange
		He was a contemporary of Red Grange, he also was a strong draw at the box office.
		It was 80 years ago this weekend that Red Grange stunned the Wolverines, scoring a 95-yard touchdown on the opening kickoff and rushing for scoring TDs of 67, 56 and 44 yards in the first quarter on the way to a 39-14 win.
		He was the recipient of the 30th Annual Red Grange Award for excellence in Wheaton high school football and academics.
	news.surfwax.com /sports/files/Red_Grange.html (3621 words)

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