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Enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, 1968.Played offensive end/halfback/defensive end for the All-America Football Conference's Chicago Americans (1946-1948) and the National Football League's Los Angeles Rams (1949-1957).Played only one season at the University of Wisconsin (1942), where he rushed for 786 yards. After joining the Marines, he was stationed in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In his lone season at the University of Michigan (1943), he became the only Wolverine to letter in four sports in the same year (basketball, track, baseball, football). He served as Wisconsin's Director of Athletics from 1969-87.The Chicago Daily News's Francis Powers is credited with the nickname "Crazy Legs" in his recap of Wisconsin's 13-7 victory over Great Lakes Naval Station at Soldier Field in Chicago: "Hirsch ran like a demented duck. His crazy legs were gyrating in six different directions all at the same time during a 61-yard touchdown run that solidified the win."Was married to his high school sweetheart Ruth by her father, a Methodist minister.An only child.He was an award winning sports reporter for L.A. radio station KNX, 1070 AM.Father of Win Hirsch .Tied for 76th on NFL All-Time Touchdown List with Terance Mathis, Jimmy Orr, Sterling Sharpe and Wendell Tyler (66).Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1974.Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 251-252. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.
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Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch
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17 June 1923
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28 January 2004
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A routine flight turns into a major emergency as passengers and crew succumb to food poisoning - is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane? If that sounds vaguely familiar, it's because 'Airplane' was a send-up of this forerunner of the 1970s disaster movie..
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