77 days - 17 hours - 40 minutes
As late as 2008 voted by ESPN the best player in college football history....
Of interest HERE, because without a doubt had the best game ever vs Michigan ha
*1924 - Michigan was the nation's best team with an incredibly dominant D, allowing about about ONE POINT/G over the past 2 years - zero TD 2023 / one 2022
Grange returned the opening KO 95 yds, then had 3 other long runs the 1Q for TD. So in just the 1Q, he had more more TD than Michigan had given up total - in 3 YEARS......Sounds like he played mostly D in the 2Q (had 2 picks) - then he went back on O in the 2H to score another TD on the ground, and throw for another.
Total : 402 yds on 21 touches / 6 TD / 2 INT. He also held for PAT. Who knows how many tackles he made.
IMO judging these guys, you don't ask if they could play TODAY, but how dominant were they relative to everyone else at the time (eg Babe Ruth hit 60+ / next guy hit like 15). Grange was about 6-0/180 - and ran a 9.8 100 yd dash (10.7 100M).... which means he was one of the fastest men on earth at the time.
>> After this game - the Michigan AD (Fielding Yost) came out of retirement to coach again, after his wife said " Fielding you bastard, can't you stop this shit?!?" (or close to that ha)
Grantland Rice was moved to write a poem ffs.....
A streak of fire, a breath of flame
Eluding all who reach and clutch;
A gray ghost thrown into the game
That rival hands may never touch;
A rubber bounding, blasting soul
Whose destination is the goal —
Harold Red Grange - Illinois RB
