Sunday, 24 November 2024

    Don Hutson

    • Contest: The US Athletic Hall of Fame - Athletes 2024
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    • Sport(s): Football
    • Statistics: 3 NFL Championships (1936, 1939 & 1944)
      2 MVPs (1941 & 1942)
      8 First Team All-Pro Selections (1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944 & 1945)
      4 Pro Bowls (1939, 1930, 1941 & 1942)
      7-Time Receiving Yards Leader (1936, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943 & 1944)
      9-Time Receiving Touchdown Leader (1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943 & 1944)
      1-Time Interceptions Leader (1940)
      1 National Championship (1934)
      1-Time All-American (1934)
      Member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
      Member of the College Football Hall of Fame
      Member of the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame
      Number retired by the Green Bay Packers
      Named to the 1930s All-Decade Team
      Named to the NFL 50th Anniversary Team
      Named to the NFL 75th Anniversary Team
      Named to the NFL 100th Anniversary Team
    • As the passing game slowly grew in football, you had to know that elite receivers were only a matter of time. Don Hutson was the first and the prototype for every wideout in football.

      An All-American and national champion at Alabama, Hutson joined Curly Lambeau and the Green Bay Packers, the team he played his entire 11 years in the NFL for. Hutson has been described by football historians as the first modern wide receiver, and many of the pass routes used today were of his doing.

      He took Green Bay to four NFL Championship Games, winning three, and along the way, he was a two-time league MVP and seven-time leader in receiving yards. Notably, he was also an excellent defensive player who netted 30 (official) interceptions, including a league-leading six in 1940. Rightfully so, Hutson is a charter member of both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and College Football Hall of Fame.

      At the time of his retirement in 1945, Hutson held every receiving record imaginable. While most of them have been eclipsed, his legacy on this aspect of the game will never be forgotten.

      We are proud to nominate Don Hutson for the United States Athletic Hall of Fame.
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