One hundred years ago this week, Red Grange took the opening kickoff of the Illinois-Michigan football game on the Fighting Illini’s 5-yard line and zigzagged through 11 frustrated defenders to score ...
October 18, 1924: The day a man became a ghost. It was on that day, in a game dedicated to the University of Illinois' newly erected Memorial Stadium, that Harold “Red” Grange – who came to be known ...
A century ago, three-time All-American Harold Edward “Red” Grange abruptly left the University of Illinois to don the navy and orange of the Chicago Bears. In October, a jersey from the “Galloping ...
One hundred years ago, on Nov. 22, 1925, the Giants beat the Kansas City Cowboys, 9-3, at the Polo Grounds. Owner Tim Mara was not at that game, though. He was off saving the franchise. By this point ...