From Wikipedia.
"Papa Bear" George Halas was not just in World War II, but also World War I.
He was founder, player and owner of The Chicago Bears as well as a founder of the NFL. He was also a member of the first 17 inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Born in Chicago on February 2, 1895, and a very good athlete at several sports.
In 1915 he was working part time at Western Electric in Chicago when he was late for an ill-fated boat trip on the SS Eastland when it capsized killing 844 passengers in the Chicago River. (I have written about this often in my Cooter's History Thing blog.
He graduated from Crane High School in Chicago then went to the University of Illinois where he played football, basketball and baseball.
During World War I, he was an ensign in the U.S,. Navy and played for the team at Great Lakes Naval Training Station in North Chicago and was named MVP of the 1919 Rose Bowl. (That is correct.) At that game, he scored a receiving TD and had a 77-yard pass interception as Great Lakes defeated the Mare Island Marines of California.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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