Chuck Bednarik Autograph Philadelphia Eagles Official NFL 8x10 Photo Penn WWII

Description: This Chuck Bednarik Autograph Philadelphia Eagles Official NFL 8x10 Photograph Penn WWII is the exact item you will receive. Charles Philip Bednarik (May 1, 1925 – March 21, 2015), nicknamed "Concrete Charlie", was an American football linebacker and center who played in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Penn Quakers, and was selected with the first overall pick of the 1949 NFL draft by the Philadelphia Eagles, where he played his entire 14-year NFL career from 1949 through 1962. Bednarik is ranked one of the hardest hitting tacklers in NFL history, and was one of the league's last two-way players, so he was also known as "60 Minute Man". On November 20, 1960, Bednarik knocked New York Giants halfback Frank Gifford unconscious with a tackle that has been called "professional football's most notorious concussion" in that time. Today Bednarik's tackle is simply known as "The Hit". He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1967, his first year of eligibility. Bednarik was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on May 1, 1925. Five years earlier, his parents had emigrated from Široké, a village in eastern Slovakia, settling in Bethlehem and working for Bethlehem Steel. He first attended school at SS. Cyril & Methodius, a Slovak parochial school in Bethlehem taught in Slovak. He then attended Liberty High School in Bethlehem, where he played football. Following graduation from Liberty High School, Bednarik entered the U.S. Air Force, where he served as a B-24 waist gunner with the Eighth Air Force. During World War II, Bednarik flew on 30 combat missions over Nazi Germany. He was awarded the Air Medal, four Oak Leaf Clusters, the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, and four Battle Stars for his military service. Following World War II, Bednarik attended the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he was a 60-minute man, excelling as both center and linebacker, and sometimes as a punter. At Penn, Bednarik was a three-time All-American. Along with two of his teammates on the 1947 Penn team, George Savitsky and tailback Tony Minisi, and his coach, George Munger, Bednarik was voted entry into the College Football Hall of Fame. In 1948, Bednarik placed third in Heisman Trophy voting and won the Maxwell Award that year. In 1969, he was voted by a panel of sportswriters, coaches, and College Football Hall of Fame players as "the greatest center of all-time."Bednarik was the first player selected in the 1949 NFL draft by the Philadelphia Eagles, where he went on to start on both offense as a center and on defense as a linebacker for the Eagles. Bednarik was a member of two Eagles' NFL Championship teams, in 1949 and again in 1960. In the final play of the 1960 NFL Championship Game.

Price: 59 USD

Location: Beverly Hills, California

End Time: 2024-11-20T19:44:57.000Z

Shipping Cost: N/A USD