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Butkus was named the team's most valuable player for the season, and was awarded the Chicago Tribune Silver Football as the Big Ten's most valuable player. [10] He was a unanimous choice as a center for the 1963 College Football All-America Team , earning first-team honors from all seven major selectors.
Butkus was a first-team All-Pro as a rookie in 1965, as was teammate Gale Sayers. Butkus and Sayers were the first rookie teammates in NFL history to both be named All-Pro, and that record wasn ...
Dick Butkus, the player who perhaps best epitomized the tough and determined identity of the Chicago Bears, has died, the Tribune confirmed Thursday. He was 80. The Butkus family said Thursday he ...
Dick Butkus, the hard-hitting Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker who starred for his hometown Chicago Bears before his outgoing personality earned him popularity in television and film acting ...
The Bears did not draft a player in the first round on nine occasions, most recently in 2022. [23] Eleven of the team's first-round picks—Dick Butkus, Jim Covert, Mike Ditka, Dan Hampton, Chuck Howley, Sid Luckman, Walter Payton, Gale Sayers, Joe Stydahar, Clyde Turner, and Brian Urlacher—have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
The Butkus Award is given by the Butkus Foundation to the best linebacker at the high school, college and professional level. The award is named after Dick Butkus, the Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker for the Chicago Bears in the 1960s and 1970s. [164] The first award to a player at the professional level was in 2008.
A photo of Dick Butkus sneering behind his facemask filled the cover of Sports Illustrated’s 1970 NFL preview, topped by the headline, “The Most Feared Man in the Game.” According to a ...
The 1963 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1963 Big Ten Conference football season. In their fourth year under head coach Pete Elliott , the Illini compiled an 8–1–1 record, finished in first place in the Big Ten Conference , were ranked #3 in the ...