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Hughes, a decoy on the play, began running back to the huddle with 1:02 showing on the clock. Suddenly, he dropped to the turf clutching his chest around the 20-yard line. [3] Hughes collapsed near Bears linebacker Dick Butkus, who saw him begin to convulse violently on the field. Butkus motioned to the sideline frantically to get Hughes ...
The 1971 Detroit Lions season was their 42nd in the league.The team failed to improve on their previous season's output of 10–4, winning only seven games.. Mired in adversity, the 1971 season turned especially tragic for the Lions and the NFL when, during their week 6 hosting of the Chicago Bears, Lions wide receiver Chuck Hughes collapsed on the playing field.
Northeastern Oklahoma A&M: 5 football players were killed in a head-on highway crash (1966). Marshall: 37 members died in an airplane crash (1970). Wichita State: most of the starting players and coaches, 31 in total, died in an airplane crash (1970). Cal Poly Mustangs football team: 16 players and 6 others died in an airplane crash (1960).
Five decades ago, Detroit Lions wide receiver Chuck Hughes, 28, died of a heart attack when a blood clot dislodged after he was tackled. One NFL player has died on the field. His widow watched ...
After the death on the field of Lions receiver Chuck Hughes during a Bears game in Detroit in 1971, Butkus wrote he picked up a magazine that had a quote from Lions middle linebacker Mike Lucci ...
50 years ago on Oct. 24, the Detroit Lions' Chuck Hughes had a heart attack and died during a game against the Bears
Amateur player who collapsed at a field and died. [228] 25 September 2021: Guillermo Arias 31 Camaguán FC In the quarterfinals of the third division tournament, he collapsed on the field and died of cardiac arrest. [229] 12 November 2021: Jony López 16 Sol del Este Suffered a heart attack while playing football. [230] 17 December 2021: Karol ...
1971: Chuck Hughes (2 March 1943 - 24 October 1971), American football player, who died on the field during a game; 1974: Baldur von Schirach (9 May 1907 – 8 August 1974), head of the Hitler Youth and convicted war criminal; 1976: Florence Ballard (30 June 1943 – 22 February 1976), American singer