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All-Time College Football Greats Named in 1889-Plus Panel
A smoky gathering of football elders selects top college players from 1889 onward. Key names include Gipp, Grange, Nagurski, Thorpe, Schulz, Heffelfinger, Hutson, Nevers, Nevers, Davis, Strong, and Eckersall. The panel weighs ends Hutson and Hewitt, backs Grange Thorpe Strong, and guards Heffelfinger with Henry as tackles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Camp
Casper Whitney
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Germany Schulz
Michigan
Robert Peck
Pittsburgh
Stein
Pitt
Mel Hein
Pudge Heffelfinger
Fat
Menry
Slater
Tawa
Stagg
Hinkey
Shevlin
Kilpatrick
Oosterbaan
Hewitt
Notre Dame
George Gipp
Illinois
Red Grange
Minnesota
Bronko Nagurski
Germany Schultz
Lic Heston
Stanford
Ernie Nevers
Carlisle
Jim Thorpe
Ken Strong
Eddie Mahan
Army
Glenn Davis
J. “Fat’’ Henry
Chicago
Walter Eckersall
Pat” Henry
W. and
Lou Little
Hinkey and Shevlin
Hutson
Alabama
Don Hutson
Dutch Clarke
Grange
Thorpe
Strong
Nagurski
Davis
Heffelfinger
Henry
Baugh
Luckman
Friedman
Governali