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Grange, Harold Edward (“Red”)
(b. 13 June 1903 in Forksville, Pennsylvania; d.
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28 January 1991 in Lake Wales, Florida), college and professional football player and broadcaster who came to prominence in the “Golden Age of Sport” in the 1920s and became a football legend.
Grange was one of four children of Lyle Grange, a lumber camp foreman and police officer, and Sadie Sherman, a homemaker who died when Grange was five years old.
After his wife’s death Lyle Grange moved with his children from Pennsylvania to Wheaton, Illinois, thirty miles west of Chicago, where he had relatives. After a brief but unsuccessful stint as a house mover, the elder Grange became a police officer in Wheaton.
As a youngster “Red,” so nicknamed for the color of his hair, quickly realized he could run faster than his playmates.
When he entered Wheaton High School in 1918, his athletic ability became evident. In addition to scoring seventy-five touchdowns during his career as the school’s football hal