Drake Bulldogs Football Players - Johnny Bright, Billy Cundiff, Ryan Horvath, Bill Stevenson, IRA Vandever, York Hentschel, Karl Kassulke (Paperback)

Chapters: Johnny Bright, Billy Cundiff, Ryan Horvath, Bill Stevenson, Ira Vandever, York Hentschel, Karl Kassulke, Dan Turk, Jerry Mertens, Felix Wright, Clarence "Pug" Manders, Dennis Mcknight, Versil Deskin, Dick Nesbitt, Pat Dunsmore, Oke Smith. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 51. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Johnny D. Bright (June 11, 1930 December 14, 1983) was a professional Canadian football player in the Canadian Football League. He played college football at Drake University. He is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, the National Football Foundation's College Football Hall of Fame, the Missouri Valley Conference Hall of Fame, the Edmonton Eskimos Wall of Honour, the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame, and the Des Moines Register's Iowa Sports Hall of Fame. In 1951, Bright was named a First Team College Football All-American, and was awarded the Nils V. "Swede" Nelson Sportsmanship Award. In 1969, Bright was named Drake University's greatest football player of all time. Bright is the only Drake football player to have his jersey number (#43) retired by the school, and in June, 2006, received honorable mention from ESPN.com senior writer Ivan Maisel as one of the best college football players to ever wear #43. In February 2006, the football field at Drake Stadium, in Des Moines, Iowa, was named in his honor. In November 2006, Bright was voted one of the CFL's Top 50 players (#19) of the league's modern era by Canadian sports network TSN. In addition to his outstanding professional and college football careers, Bright is perhaps best known for his role as the victim of an intentional, most likely racially motivated, on-field assault by an opposing college football player from Oklahoma A