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Chuck Bednarik
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Center, Pennsylvania, 1945–⁠48

Chuck Bednarik

Chuck Bednarik played center at Pennsylvania (1945–⁠48). He won the 1948 Maxwell Award. He finished third in the 1948 Heisman vote and was a consensus All‑American in 1947 and 1948. The Philadelphia Eagles took Bednarik first overall in the 1949 NFL Draft. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1969.

Best season
1948
Maxwell Award and Consensus All-American
Heisman vote
3rd
In the 1948 vote
Drafted
No. 1
Overall, 1949 NFL Draft (Philadelphia Eagles)

Honors

All-America: consensus 1947 and 1948; INS second team 1946

The teams in those years

Linemen have no individual stat lines in our source.

In the NFL

Pro Bowls: 8 (1950–⁠54, 1956–⁠57, 1960) · First-team All-Pro (AP): 6 (1950–⁠54, 1960) · Second-team All-Pro (AP): 1957

All-Pro teams: AP first team 1950–⁠54, 1960; AP second team 1957; Sporting News first team 1954; United Press first team 1951–⁠52, 1954–⁠55; New York Daily News first team 1951, 1953–⁠54; UPI first team 1960; and 3 more.

Pro Bowls and All-Pro teams by NFL season: rosters and honors, Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

Books

Books: Open Library (CC0); most-reissued first, each linked to its page there.

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