1908-
Football Player

Man and Myth.

Few athletes in the 1930s possessed as many golden age qualities as Chicago Bears running back Bronko Nagurski. Son of Ukrainian immigrants, Nagurski moved to northern Minnesota as a young boy and played on a winless highschool team that often had to travel one hundred miles away to play a game. He was unheralded when he entered the University of Minnesota in 1926, but by the end of his college career he was on most ail-American teams as either a fullback or a tackle, or both. He was possessed of extraordinary strength. He blocked punts, led interference, and ran over defensive backs, dragging players with him into the end zone. In a game against a superior Wisconsin team, he forced a fumble and then scored the game's only touchdown. He became a folk hero, and tales soon arose about his knocking...