Pro Football Hall of Famer Charley Trippi, a runner-up for the Heisman Trophy at Georgia who went on to lead the Chicago Cardinals to the 1947 NFL championship, died Wednesday. He was 100.
Trippi was one of football’s most versatile players, lining up at multiple positions on offense, defense and special teams. He is the only member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame to have 1,000 yards rushing, receiving and passing in his career.
“If you know anything about his legend at Georgia, you know he was, perhaps, the greatest all-around football player on our campus,” Bulldogs coach Kirby Smart said. “Many historians and observers have said that, and from reading about him, I understand why.” Former Georgia player Charley Trippi receives a College Football Hall of Fame ring during the first half of a Georgia-Georgia Tech game on Nov. 29, 2014, in Athens, Ga.
Georgia capped the season with a 9–0 victory over UCLA in the Rose Bowl. Trippi carried 27 times for 115 yards, also handled passing and punting duties and was retroactively named the game’s most valuable player when the award was created in 1953. The football Yankees were so sure he would agree to a joint contract to play for both them as well as the storied baseball team of the same name that they called a news conference to announce the deal.
Unable to get much traction in his cleats, Trippi switched to a pair of sneakers. He led the Cardinals to a 28-21 victory, scoring a pair of touchdowns on a 44-yard run and a 75-yard punt return.“The only time I played an NFL game in tennis shoes was in Chicago for our championship team,” Trippi said in a 2014 interview. “We got better footing in tennis shoes. You couldn’t stand up in cleats.”
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